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Roy White · 12-25-2007, 03:55 PM

Dont get me wrong. I dont throw it around and I do treat it as careful as possible but since I lug it around with me everywhere I go in a case I bought designed for a Nintendo DS system (I guess that's a handheld video game nintendo sells, the reader fits perfectly in it and its only 10 bucks at Best buy) life happens and every time something happens I cringe but so far it has taken all the abuse I've dealt out to it.

I bought a spare for 58 bucks using the Sony card deal so I dont worry about it much since I have another brand new reader lying in the weeds. Plus I look at the reader like I do my PC.. Disposable and replaceable. Soon the prs 500 will be obsolete, made so by a new device that walks and talks compared to the reader and I, as a bona fide technofile, will queue up and buy the newest gadget and leave the reader on the garage sale table.

So... I dunno. I just dont worry about it alot. The reader isn't the point for me. The READING is the point!!!

Just as I've never been much of a book collector, (A paperback, dog eared copy of Moby Dick does me just as well as a first edition with all the pretension that goes along with it) ((I do love parenthesis, it allows me to examine other sides of an issue in the middle of my own arguments heh heh...)) I'm not real partial to the reader as an object of desire in and of itself.

So... Be careful but... USE it! I am never without a book now. In line at the grocery store, the DMV, waiting for a friend at Starbucks to show up for a Coffee etc. Now I am (Dream come true here) Always reading!!!! (I used to grab even stupid stuff like The National Enquirer when I had a few minutes on line or waiting for a prescription at Costco because I am addicted to reading) Now. I use the reader as an integral part of my life seizing every oppurtunity to ruminate deeply perusing Socrates while waiting for a movie to begin or sneaking a few chapters of Howards Conan stories if the sermon at Church gets a little too boring for me!

To me, the reader doesn't matter so much as the reading and another device like the Kindle or Mobipocket or whatever will do me fine. I'm excited about what these techno studs will come up with in the future, devices that will allow me to hitch a ride on the thoughts of others instead of running in the lousy circles my own thoughts end up in.

Oh now I've run on and on (Which is exactly what these forums are for anyway!!!)

12-25-2007, 03:55 PM	#13
Roy White Evangelist Posts: 482 Karma: 7696 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Turner, Oregon Device: Sony Reader	Dont get me wrong. I dont throw it around and I do treat it as careful as possible but since I lug it around with me everywhere I go in a case I bought designed for a Nintendo DS system (I guess that's a handheld video game nintendo sells, the reader fits perfectly in it and its only 10 bucks at Best buy) life happens and every time something happens I cringe but so far it has taken all the abuse I've dealt out to it. I bought a spare for 58 bucks using the Sony card deal so I dont worry about it much since I have another brand new reader lying in the weeds. Plus I look at the reader like I do my PC.. Disposable and replaceable. Soon the prs 500 will be obsolete, made so by a new device that walks and talks compared to the reader and I, as a bona fide technofile, will queue up and buy the newest gadget and leave the reader on the garage sale table. So... I dunno. I just dont worry about it alot. The reader isn't the point for me. The READING is the point!!! Just as I've never been much of a book collector, (A paperback, dog eared copy of Moby Dick does me just as well as a first edition with all the pretension that goes along with it) ((I do love parenthesis, it allows me to examine other sides of an issue in the middle of my own arguments heh heh...)) I'm not real partial to the reader as an object of desire in and of itself. So... Be careful but... USE it! I am never without a book now. In line at the grocery store, the DMV, waiting for a friend at Starbucks to show up for a Coffee etc. Now I am (Dream come true here) Always reading!!!! (I used to grab even stupid stuff like The National Enquirer when I had a few minutes on line or waiting for a prescription at Costco because I am addicted to reading) Now. I use the reader as an integral part of my life seizing every oppurtunity to ruminate deeply perusing Socrates while waiting for a movie to begin or sneaking a few chapters of Howards Conan stories if the sermon at Church gets a little too boring for me! To me, the reader doesn't matter so much as the reading and another device like the Kindle or Mobipocket or whatever will do me fine. I'm excited about what these techno studs will come up with in the future, devices that will allow me to hitch a ride on the thoughts of others instead of running in the lousy circles my own thoughts end up in. Oh now I've run on and on (Which is exactly what these forums are for anyway!!!) Last edited by Roy White; 12-25-2007 at 04:03 PM.