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Originally Posted by Rizla
According to this, the Kindle is the heaviest of the lot! I'm very surprised. I assumed the Sony 650 would be heavier because it's made of metal. Hard to believe the plastic Kindle is heavier than the metal Sony. Maybe these figures are wrong?
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The Kindle has a keyboard; that 's where the extra weight comes from. The plastic cover isn't that much lighter than Sony's metal; it's just cheaper to produce. The plastic has to be thicker than metal, so it doesn't weigh much less.
The weight differences between all of the e-ink readers are negligible. The size differences might matter to some people (I prefer a 5" reader), but the weight is so much less than a paperback that it doesn't matter.