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Originally Posted by JohnnyRocks
The external memory will not be a factor for most people, given the fact that you can store thousands of books on the internal memory of the Sony. And, since most of us use Calibre anyway, and converting to Epub is as easy as pressing a button, the "variety of formats" is also a non issue.
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It seems to me you are trying to make an argument on what is best in absolute - I am instead arguing that this is not always possible, as it is a matter of different tastes and different priorities for different people.
As for formats, for some types conversion can be very messy (I do not know if you have tried converting djvu files - it may be me, but I have come to the conclusion that life is too short for it
), and as for price at least in my part of the world there is almost a 25% difference (£99 for the PB360 against the cheapest PB350 Sony I could find at £122.40, excluding delivery costs), plus of course in the case of the Sony I would definitely want to have a cover, while for the P360 I can get away without it because of the snap cover (or stick it in a cd case if I want to be sure the keys in my pocket do not scratch the plastic). But even for the same price, the three things I mentioned earlies (formats, SD card, ability to customize my device) still make the PB360 more desirable than the Sony 350 for me.
Of course these are
my priorities, and I am not expecting them to be yours - touch is nice, but the other features more than compensate the lack of touch and the plastic case
for me. For you it is obviously the other way round, great then: I do not go out assuming that what appears blatantly obvious to me because of my preferences should find everybody else in agreement, and I guess you shouldn't be surprised either.
p.s.
As an aside, I also find the two year warranty on the PB360 attractive - I have been stung with Sony's warranties before (maybe it is the UK, maybe it is only for laptops, but the technical help is a premium number), and PB has a two year cover. Not a dealbreaker, but nice to know it is there.