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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Content is definitely the most important thing. My question though is what are all those extra 70,000 titles that are available on the Kindle, but not on the eReader? I went through some of my favorite authors and couldn't find any books listed that weren't available through Sony. While that's not a scientific survey or anything, I would have expected to find at least a few with that big of a difference. Certainly, I would be quite willing to buy a Kindle if it really does have books that I want that aren't available on the eReader, but I don't see them. Am I missing something?
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I'm with you. These are statistics which I have a hard time digesting without more information about what titles they represent. Unfortunately, there's no simple way that I know of to compare what Sony offers for the Reader with what Amazon offers for the Kindle or what any other site offers in various formats. None of them provide a way to assess what's there quickly by providing a downloadable database, for instance. You either have to know what you're looking for and search for it or else you have to slowly page through listings. If I had a lot of time I might do a comparison of the two sites on a small sampling of titles (say, a few hundred) but I don't have the energy for that.