[sirmaru]

The Sony Readers and the Amazon Kindles will BOTH be gone in 5 years or LESS. Technology has made almost all of my gadgets obsolete in less than 2 years. What else is new?

I purchased my Sony Reader 505 with the full expectation it will last 2 years or less. So far it is still working and allows me to occasionally continue books when away from my PC. I do most of my book reading on my PC with a 24" LCD Monitor which will also be obsolete in 2 years or less. None of these readers beat the LCD Monitor, in my opinion. The Sony Reader is just a SUPPLEMENTARY reader for me when waiting in offices or when away from my house.

The BIG problem with the Amazon Kindle is that it does not allow reading of books on a PC. They do not supply PC software to read their books. So far as I am concerned that is a SHOW STOPPER for them. If they don't supply a PC reader soon, their Kindle entry will not even last one year.

At present I use MS Reader and Sony eBook Library ON MY PC to do most of my reading.

I purchased a Magellen GPS 4 years ago. I dumped it 2 months ago when my Garmin Nuvi 750 made the old GPS look like garbage. I am sure the Garmin will also be junk in 2 years. That's the way it goes for us technology junkies.