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twowheels · 12-21-2010, 02:30 AM

A coworker who really liked my K3 now tells me that Santa might be bringing him a K3. If so, his K1 will be on the market. My girlfriend keeps stealing my K3 making it unavailable to me when I want to use it! I'm thinking about buying this K1 for her, knowing the very real risk that I'll get stuck with it. :-) I've offered to buy another K3, but she doesn't want to spend the money -- she won't admit that she is using it so much.

If I were to buy the K1, would we be greatly disappointed by it after using the K3? How different are they in usability in normal usage? Does anybody have any good images representing the differences in the screens? I know that we'd not have PDF support on it (which sucks, she does read PDFs, increasing the chances that I'd lose my K3), but are there any other major differences for just .mobi or Amazon purchased ebooks?

Also... what is a fair price? I don't want to cheat him, but I don't want to overpay. Also, since we don't care whether it has 3G or not that's not of great value to us, so if the value of the K1 with 3G is close to the price of a K3 WiFi, then I'll probably pass.

Thanks!!

12-21-2010, 02:30 AM	#1
twowheels Wizard Posts: 1,854 Karma: 13432974 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kobo Clara HD, iPad Pro 10", iPhone 15 Pro, Boox Note Max	Should we consider used K1? A coworker who really liked my K3 now tells me that Santa might be bringing him a K3. If so, his K1 will be on the market. My girlfriend keeps stealing my K3 making it unavailable to me when I want to use it! I'm thinking about buying this K1 for her, knowing the very real risk that I'll get stuck with it. :-) I've offered to buy another K3, but she doesn't want to spend the money -- she won't admit that she is using it so much. If I were to buy the K1, would we be greatly disappointed by it after using the K3? How different are they in usability in normal usage? Does anybody have any good images representing the differences in the screens? I know that we'd not have PDF support on it (which sucks, she does read PDFs, increasing the chances that I'd lose my K3), but are there any other major differences for just .mobi or Amazon purchased ebooks? Also... what is a fair price? I don't want to cheat him, but I don't want to overpay. Also, since we don't care whether it has 3G or not that's not of great value to us, so if the value of the K1 with 3G is close to the price of a K3 WiFi, then I'll probably pass. Thanks!!