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Originally Posted by tsgreer
No disrespect to my cybook-illiad-sony-brothers/sisters-in-arms, but Amazon was the one with the marketing muscle to make the average, non-geek (and even some geeks) aware of ebook readers. That's why I fail to understand some of the kindle-bashing comments in other threads.
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I agree with this and the earlier statement.. It's unfortunate, but more or less standard practice on the net, to absolutely trash what you don't have, the choice you didn't make, etc. "The PS3 sucks! The Mac sucks! The PC sucks!" It can so rarely be "well, for me this was what worked..."
As far as I can tell... the arguments aren't even coherent. Yes, DRM sucks but is there some huge (Amazon sized) non-DRM book store out there that I'm missing out on by using the Kindle?
No?
Oh, well then....
I can put Mobi books on there. Anything I can convert to Mobi I can put on there, I can send PDF's, HTML and Doc's there... If I can find something without DRM, great... but since most of what I'm interested in isn't available as such, DRM wins (for now.)
The Sony Reader is a great device, and the others I've seen have been pretty decent too... But all in all, it's about the content and Amazon seems to be the one delivering.
So for now I'll keep enjoying my Kindle and be glad the market is expanding and hope for a day that Amazon sells DRM-free books and periodicals that are available for a number of devices.