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Old 06-11-2011, 09:18 AM   #14
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Web browsing on the iPhone is a heck of a lot easier than on the Kindle.
We had our son take the Kindle on his backpacking tour through central Europe, and he is sending daily Facebook, and occasional gmail, messages home from country after country. Aside from the tremendous total cost of ownership difference, googling shows this would have been mind-bogglingly complicated with the iPhone. By contrast, international borders, at least in Europe, seem pretty much non-existent with the Kindle. I think that Whispernet fees vary, but we keep the personal document limit at $0.00 so that one's a non-issue. The only remaining difference was the need to send him away with a charger plug adapter costing, I think it was, 87 cents. So, from where I sit, which one is a heck of a lot easier depends on what you are doing.

Meanwhile I am reading perfectly adequate Kindle alternatives available over the counter at the public library.

This perspective on the Kindle's usefulness may not quite fit on a board concerning mobile reading devices, but I figured I would place it somewhere, and your post has hereby received the honor.
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