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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
For myself, I decided on the Sony because it's just a better made product... smaller size, loved the touchscreen, quality feel with the metal case. I hated how big the Kindle was because of the keyboard, the page buttons on it were pretty stiff to push also. Now that could have just been the store demo, but the size and plastic alone was enough for me to not like it.
The fact that the Sony can also handle library books was a bonus, but it's definitely not a reason I'd buy a reader I didn't like just for library access.
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My sentiments exactly, save that the library access is worthless where I am.
I mostly buy ebooks from Amazon, or get them from Gutenberg. I put samples on my Sony 350 and read them in the smallest room in the house. I put recreational reading (fiction for the most part) on my Sony 650. I use my Kindle DX for non-fiction - I find the large form factor best for that kind of reading. I do own a K3 but I use it mostly for reading articles sent from my web browser or newreaders to the K3 via my free.kindle account. Once in a while I put the same book on the K3, the KDX and the 650 so that I have access at work (650), home (KDX) or in transit (K3) - I'm doing that right now with David Foster Wallace's Pale King.
But I'm always the happiest using the Sonys, and if I had to have just one EBR, it would be the 650 because of the touch screen and screen size.
Thank the God of Reading (supposedly Minerva but I'm thinking Bacchus) for calibre & Apprentice Alf...
What I get from the library these days is DVDs that I can't get from Netflix. Silent flicks, & educational stuff.