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Originally Posted by coryj
I saw this, but I think with a case and shipping to the USA it was more than the Kindle (with seemingly less features). I suppose I will give this a second look-over if you are implying it may suit me better than the kindle or sony.
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I consider it to better than the Sony, personally, although somewhat more expensive. The fact that it support MobiPocket gives it access to a huge range of books from multiple retailers, rather than being tied (more or less) to a single source. I also like the fact that you can load your own fonts on to it (something that neither the Kindle nor the Sony really support), the extensive dictionary support (the Sony has no dictionary, the Kindle has a fixed dictionary; the Gen3 has something like 300 different ones available), and the fact that there's an excellent desktop reader available too. The fact that it has a user-replaceable battery is nice, too (the Sony doesn't, but I believe the Kindle does).
The Kindle is out of the picture for me, not living in the US.
Web browsing is horrible on an eInk screen, believe me (I tried it on my iLiad). The slow refresh-rate of the screen severely restricts its practicality for that purpose. The fact that the Kindle (unlike the iLiad) lacks a touch screen also makes navigation difficult or impossible on many web sites, according to reports I've read.