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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
If you go back and review my original post, I didn't push a Kindle. I gave the OP four options. Admittidly, I did miss that they were outside of the US so the Best Buy suggestion was not helpful. Your initial objection to the idea of a Kindle was that it might not be supported in Croatia, it is, and that the 3G might not be free, it is. Then you toss out the tied to Amazon line. It is not.
The Sony is out of the OP price range. The Nook and Kobo are in the OP price range if he/she wants to investigate how to get one shipped to him/her and are in his/her price range.
You can download free books to your Kindle as easily as you can to a Sony or a Nook or a Kobo. There are even sites that are set up to send books to your Kindle using whispernet. I believe Feedbooks is one of those sites.
You have a bias against the Kindle. I get that some folks love EPub and think that it is the best thing since slice bread was invented but the constant repetition of the same silly "You are tied to Amazon's store" is 1) wrong and 2) old. Amazon does have the largest collection of e-books so a reader is likely to find the books they want in Amazons store. Amazons large selection of books might be geo restricted but those restrictions will also impeded him/her from buying those books from Sony or any other legit e-book store. And since Agency Pricing seems to be taking hold across the globe, the price difference from store to store is not likely to exist. So the freedom that comes with an E-Pub reader seems nice on paper but really doesn't mean much in reality.
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Are you working on behalf of amazon or just a member like others?
