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Originally Posted by Poppaea
No, you don't. No MP3s, no audio feature at all, no foreign language dictionaries, no collections or comparable feature. You will get a couple of gimmicky social stuff for those who have no real friends and a cheapo rubber case with a pearl screen that will be just the new standard screen from now on. The only thing they do better with their reader is the 6 different fonts. But they can't compare to the x50 in performance.
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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Your attack on Lucid Dreams seem entirely unwarranted, IMHO. And in this point in particular, either you are nitpicking on the words used (because he didn't explicitly say that "the individual's value placed on the audio feature is subjective") or you don't understand what the word "subjective" means. The value of audio on a reader IS subjective-- I could not possibly give a smaller fraction of a rat's ass about audio on an ebook reader, and would never have any interest in wasting space on a reader with audio files.
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Originally Posted by Poppaea
But the point if not if you care for it or not but that he compared the products. When comparing them there are features the Nook and Kobo don't have. So you can't compare their price to the price of the Sony.
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I think it's unfortunate to use disparaging words like cheapo when discussing the relative advantages of one reader over another. It's rude and implies an element of economic snobbery. Price
is a legitimate consideration, always.
I agree that a feature like audio is subjective (and of no potential interest to me, either). Ditto for social networking, but I won't assume that people who want it are friendless (some people spend a whole lot of time online, apparently, even posting on internet forums).
The Sonys have features the Nooks/Kobos dont, and vice versa. You can't make a one-sided case. And I didn't realize there won't be folders on the new Nook. I find the folders on the current Nook more convenient than the collections on the Sony.