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Originally Posted by HarryT
Owning both a Kindle and ePub devices, one thing that is undoubtedly true is that, if you plan to buy commercial eBooks, it's much, MUCH easier to do it on the Kindle (especially the 3G Kindle) than it is on an ePub device. On the Kindle you can browse the bookstore on the device itself, click the "Buy" button, and a minute later you're reading it. On an ePub device, you have to load the book via a PC and it's a lot less convenient.
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Harry, this simply isn't correct. It depends on which device you have. For example, my Sony 950 lets me browse the Sony and Google ebookstores "on the device itself, click the 'Buy' button, and a minute later you're reading it." The same is true, as far as I know, with the Nook and Kobo wireless devices (obviously to their respective ebookstores). I'll grant that on the Sony 350 and 650 devices, you are correct, but your response really should have been more general to say that with a wireless-capable device one can have instant gratification but non-wireless-capable devices require a more cumbersome approach.
It is also worth noting that more ebookstores use ePub formatting than Amazon's proprietary formatting, thus giving a reader more ebookstore options without having to strip DRM and reformat.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
As far as the actual readers go, both Sony Readers and Kindles are excellent; I'm sure you'd be delighted with either.
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This, OTOH, is 100% correct.
