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Originally Posted by cmbs
Which part?
I think the "typical reader" expects more from an expensive product than they do from a free one, and I think it's completly valid.
I also think the "typical reader" is going to assume, by looking at what's presented, that they are calculating page numbers and offering to send you to a specific page. They would assume that because that's exactly what it looks like.
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The typical reader is going to assume that a 'new' technology is going to have bugs, kinks and flaws. Witness Windows 1.0, 2.01, 3.0, 95, 98, ME, NT, XP and Vista. There's a saying - perhaps you've heard it - "Never buy 1.0 of *anything*." There's an addendum to that. "But if you do, expect you'll have to pay more and live with the bugs until they get fixed." Now just what part of that do you have a problem understanding? You
CHOSE to buy the Cybook when it was in it's first generation. You didn't have to.
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I have not demanded that they be as close to mobireader as possible, although it would be an improvement if they were more like it. Nor am I bitching and moaning that they are. Mobipocket Desktop Reader was free AND it works better. Granted the cybook offers features the desktop reader doesn't. Do you always spend your money like it's water? Some of us don't appreciate spending a lot of money on things that don't work correctly (and don't underestimate the importance of poor customer service). In fact, it's possible that the "typical reader" cares about the product they get for the money. Even assuming that most people don't care how they spend their money and what they get for it, some people do, and it's completely valid. Just because a feature is unimportant to you, doesn't make it unimportant.
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But
YOU are
NOT a typical customer. You
chose to buy a Cybook when it was 'first genertion'. You
chose to be an 'early-adopter'. You
chose, despite knowing all this and making these prior choices, to then bitch and moan over minor inconveniences as if they were the
worst possible failures! That is what makes your most recent posts on this nothing more than bitching and moaning while distorting reality.
No, that is
not Bookeen's position, nor is it Not Another E-Book's. That opinion is solely mine. And I'm not wasting any further time on what you have to say about this.
Derek