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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
Let me stop you right there. Other than the Kindle hardware, you can get this hardware and read Kindle formatted wares with it. |
So I can buy a Kindle, or I can buy an iPad, or I can buy a smartphone, or I can buy a different operating system for my netbook, or I can stay home and read on my PC. And you think this is the answer. Are you even understanding why this is totally negating the whole point of buying an ebook reader in the first place?
I don't want to buy a Kindle. I have an ebook reader, and it's not a Kindle; why should I need two?
I don't want to buy an iPad. It's freaking expensive, and it's a lousy ebook reader.
I don't want to buy a smartphone, and I can't afford a data plan for a smartphone anyway (especially since AT&T just ate my cellular carrier).
I don't want to buy a different operating system for my netbook; I like the one I have. Besides, even a 9" netbook is a hell of a lot bigger than an ebook reader.
And I certainly don't want to read magazines on my PC -- if I wanted to read things on my PC, I wouldn't have bought an ebook reader in the first place.
What you're telling me is that if I have a Sony PRS-505 (as I do), or a B&N Nook, or a Kobo, or a BeBook, or any of a zillion other ebook readers, I should replace it with totally different hardware, at considerable expense, just so I could read a magazine?
How about no?
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The story on the screen should be the focus, not the format of the file that it's read from.
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Yeah, it should be, which is why platform lock-in is a Bad Thing.