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Originally Posted by Ditchleyportrait
i swear i look up many authors on wiki, the internet, i look up authors in the kindle store, and i never have to really interrupt my reading. breaking out a laptop is tedious, and mind, i did about 2 hours worth of browsing through information on saul bellow, william kennedy, etc, at a house with no wifi or anything, yesterday.
i do take issue with wikipedia. the articles aren't necessarily spectacular, but when you're looking for WHO to read, it's very useful.
so these guys who claim to not need 3g, do they just not know what they're missing? i think so. the convenience!
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I get newspapers (Financial Times and WSJ) delivered on my 950 every morning via 3g, wherever I am at - well, within the USA, at least.
That makes 3g priceless to me.
Browsing... too clunky on eink. Frankly, I must have bought books over 3g maybe once or twice per year, no more than that - it's just easier to do it on a laptop and I am rarely in a rush, as my list of books-to-read (and related folder on my devices) is always very long. But the auto-delivery, regardless of wifi availability, that's just great.
I am actually surprised that most users don't see this as an important benefit of 3g. In general, I am getting the impression that relatively few people use their eink devices for magazines and newspapers. For magazines, I prefer my iPad, but I read newspapers on my SONYs - and even some, more text-prone, magazines (such as the Economist and Foreign Policy).
To be entirely honest, I thought I would never use an eink device for books - I just wanted to avoid having to search for a newsstand every morning. I got hooked on ebooks, but that was unexpected.
Seems I am, however, in the minority here.