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emoorman · 07-20-2011, 03:46 PM

The killer items for me are that the reader is a pain to use and load books and the company has poor customer service.

I'll admit that I do not own a dedicated ebook reader. I read on my phone and PC or laptop. I have been reading on PDAs and phones since Peanut Press and the Palm 3 (or was it Palm III?). I have used just about all of the reader software, for PDAs, phones and PCs. My present Android phone has Kindle, Nook, KOBO, FBReader and a couple of others on it, so I am able to compare each one for loading books and reading books.

I can also compare touch screen and buttons since I have used both on various PDAs & phones. Personally, I don't see any difference in ease of use between buttons & touch. Touch is new and sexy, but I went from a Moto Q9h to an Android touch phone (Moto Bravo) and neither one seemed easier or harder to use than the other.

The best for typing input was the Moto Q9h phone with its keyboard. Don't mention Swype; I tried it and couldn't stop missing letters. I did like the original Palm Grafiti input.

As for buying a book and starting to read, it's Amazon's Kindle for Android hands down, in my opinion. One click, they say, and you are reading, but it's really 2 since you need to say which Kindle item the book goes to.

07-20-2011, 03:46 PM	#111
emoorman Obsessive Reader Posts: 74 Karma: 515292 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Shalimar, FL (in the panhandle) Device: Kindle PW, Nokia 1520	Killer for me The killer items for me are that the reader is a pain to use and load books and the company has poor customer service. I'll admit that I do not own a dedicated ebook reader. I read on my phone and PC or laptop. I have been reading on PDAs and phones since Peanut Press and the Palm 3 (or was it Palm III?). I have used just about all of the reader software, for PDAs, phones and PCs. My present Android phone has Kindle, Nook, KOBO, FBReader and a couple of others on it, so I am able to compare each one for loading books and reading books. I can also compare touch screen and buttons since I have used both on various PDAs & phones. Personally, I don't see any difference in ease of use between buttons & touch. Touch is new and sexy, but I went from a Moto Q9h to an Android touch phone (Moto Bravo) and neither one seemed easier or harder to use than the other. The best for typing input was the Moto Q9h phone with its keyboard. Don't mention Swype; I tried it and couldn't stop missing letters. I did like the original Palm Grafiti input. As for buying a book and starting to read, it's Amazon's Kindle for Android hands down, in my opinion. One click, they say, and you are reading, but it's really 2 since you need to say which Kindle item the book goes to.