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Originally Posted by carld
I don't even own a Kindle yet and I find the negative reviews annoying as hell. I think it's the display of so much simple-minded arrogance by people who massively bash a device sight unseen, and apparently without even bothering to read the specs.
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And on the Amazon reviews, the arguments are not so much Kindle vs. another e-book reading device--it's the idea of an "e-book reader" vs. paper books.
A lot of the negative reviews are from people afraid that paper books will go away and leave them doomed to forever roam a world of technology that they don't or won't ever understand. Seriously, the majority of them are lame things like "but I can't curl up to the fireplace with it ..."
Um, sure you can. And honestly, let's be real here, even if Amazon decided to sell an Amazon/Sony branded reader rather than their own, the Amazon reviews would be the same. A lot of p-book people hate the very idea that Amazon is in the e-book biz because they are unsure of what that means for them.
Change can be a scary thing. I personally think that there is plenty of room for both and p-books aren't going to go away anytime soon.