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Originally Posted by Poppaea
This is not the point. The point in this thread is LadyLou who fights very brave to get her little reader running and enjoy it. She worked on it for a year. Now she asked for help and it is not going to help her when someone says: throw out your device and buy one that works easier.
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No one said to throw it out. You've applied malice to a post that was trying to be helpful. "You can't get the Sony to work well for you? I haven't had problems with a Kindle, it's easy. Maybe you'd like it?"
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Originally Posted by Poppaea
Her device is not a bit more complicated. The only difference between them is the lack of wifi and thus the downloading to a computer first.
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Involving a computer
does make it more complicated. Maybe not for you or me, but for many people. My mom has a Sony. I bought it for her. She brings it to me when she needs to buy more books because she can't figure the thing out. I handed her a Kindle and she had downloaded her first book and was reading in about 3 minutes. So yes, I do think the Sony's are more complicated for the average user, and my personal experience supports this.
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Originally Posted by Poppaea
Furthermore I guess it is not helpful for certain persons to always mention Calibre. It should be step 2 not step 1 to engage Calibre when they have mastered using the software on board the reader. I don't know if you own a Sony but the moment you connect it with your computer it runs the Reader Library Software and you are perfectly able to handle all your needs with it as I imagine the Kindle software does with the Kindle.
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I have several Sonys; I don't like or use the Reader software. The Kindle does not install any software, it shows up as an external drive and you drag and drop files. I know Sony users can't imagine a device that doesn't need software...
But that's part of what makes the Kindle user-friendly for the masses. Calibre is certainly not something I'd recommend to a new ereader user who wasn't tech savvy.
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When somebody comes to a board having precise questions or issues I think it is common curtesy to adress these and not to wisecrack about how easy something else works or if there are even more advanced things and so on.
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I think we all did a very good job of addressing her issue.
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The pattern in all threads I saw on this forums so far is always the same. Someone will talk about Calibre and its superiority above SRL or ADE or whatever, another one will recommend the easy Kindle and a third one will bring up deDRM. You can bet your ass on it. But I fail to see how this is helpful to those who come here for help. And this is what drives me nuts and sometimes over board.
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It's what I like to call the Pro-Kindle Movement. It bothers me too, and it's the reason I don't venture into the Kindle forums anymore. But there's an equally vocal Anti-Kindle Movement, and I hate it too. You had a knee-jerk negative reaction to a very innocent comment.