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Old 03-01-2011, 06:47 PM   #29
happygirl
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happygirl began at the beginning.
 
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Kettle Moraine Southern Unit
Device: 1st kindle
So far so good

My best suggestion to anyone trying to "decide" is to check with your local library, even ours here in small town USA has four different readers available to check out for 10 days. In addition we can utilize an I PAD at the library.

This way perhaps you can actually decide by seeing, touching, and playing with the readers themselves. Everyone has a different expectation and desire for their technical devices.

I have found that so far the two "problematic" readers Augen & Cruz, I have purchased have been okay. Now in saying that...I live in a state forest (lots of read time), I am not a "tech" person and am perfectly happy running XP on a Toshiba Satellite. I am not in need of something that does much more than functions to download books, check email, and occasionally hit social and news sites. I am on satellite feed so my internet is ALWAYS slow, which makes me much more paitent with my readers speed I think.

The Cruz being ANDRIOD, I am able to watch YouTube (via Sky Fire not the preloaded App) and check out both DRM and Non DRM books (using Adobe which I set up and Overdrive).

Augen I am still playing with as it just arrived and I am setting it up for my nephew (15) to read books on...he is a total book worm (good boy!).

I hear Kindles are the bomb, I have scheduled to check one out next week. So we shall see...I don't want to buy books, why would I do that? LOL....
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