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Originally Posted by rflashman
2. With the Sony Reader, if I was sitting at work, bathroom, in-bed, or anywhere and think of a book I wanted, I had to remember it, and then wait until the next time I was at my home PC (the one PC of the 4 I use all day that has the Sony Connect software) to buy it and download it, then plug in my Reader and sync it. In practice this rarelly happened because by the time I got to my PC I forgot what book I wanted and I lost my 'drive/impulse' to buy it. So the end result if I found myself barelly reading books on my Sony Reader.
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Well....we have very different reading practices then.
1. I would never ever buy a book on impulse.
2. I always do a lot of research about a book I would like to buy. It includes reading Amazon.com/.co.uk reviews, but more importantly I read book forums where people read this book and leave their opinion about it. So, I have quite a long list of the books I would like to read based on different reviews and my own taste.
3. Taking into account things I have put in bold...for me personally, means only one thing - you didn't really want to read the book you wanted to buy. It is probably a bit personally, I am sorry about it, but in my opinion you are not an avid reader. You are not much into reading books. Just because you lost an impulse to buy a certain book it is not enough of a reason not to read at all if you really like to read books. You barelly used sony reader not because it was difficult to obtain the content, but because you didn't really want to read. Otherwise you would miss the experience of the process itself. Just because you forgot what you wanted to buy, would not stop you to buy something else to read because without reading - life is boring...for me
Cannot argue newspaper topic. It is valid one but I believe it belongs (along with your post) to another topic -
Kindle over Sony Reader
