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Originally Posted by cgk
Is wifi a deal-breaker for your selection of a ereader?
I ask because I recently purchased a Kindle 3 for my other half - within ten minutes it was set up to access my Calibre library wherever she is and of course she can buy books off amazon as she likes. She's away today and forgot a PD book that she's using for a course, she got it off the content server in seconds.
I have a Sony PRS600 and thought after seeing the new generation screens that I'd get a PRS650 and use that. I was amazed to see it has no wifi connection - so instead I ordered myself a kindle as well.
Where do you stand on Wifi? Must have or don't care? Or are you a step beyond and 3G is a must?
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must have either or better yet both. It's as needed as redundant backups. I really have come to enjoy the Wikipedia thanks to my Kindles. Prior to my Kindles I pretty much never used Wikipedia mostly because of the often bad info. But now I use them anytime something in a book leads my mind astray and I can't stop thinking about whatever. Just a quick pop over to the Wiki and my curiosity is sated and I am back in the mood to read.
I don't use the web server feature of Calibre though. Too much traveling these days, trying to find a new place to live that is not California. So I have everything that matters for fun and work tucked behind seat in the front of my pick-up.
Wireless has just become too significant to my daily life to even think about getting by without it.