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Kolenka · 09-28-2011, 05:15 PM

The big deal to me is that while you have DRM in both camps, I can at least buy a book from where it is more convenient with the ePub based readers. I get a gift card to Sony? Sure. Kobo? Sounds good. Fictionwise? Why not. With Amazon, your choices are limited to Amazon within the limits of the DRM.

And out of the ePub readers, I keep coming back to Sony because of the polish usually present in the software. It treats personal/side-loaded content like a first class citizen. There is usually nothing different between what I add from Feedbooks vs Sony's own store. Collections/Shelving is mature, and Calibre has so far been able to actually auto-create collections on the Sony for you which is a huge plus. The home screen is also a bit more useful than the competition (Nook, I'm staring at you). The T1 is also able to download and add books from any web page straight on the device itself. This makes it possible to download from places like Baen and Feedbooks without firing up a PC to do it. Or access your private collection that you have hosted somehow (Calibre is supposed to let you do this, but I haven't tried it). This is something even the Kindle can't do. Sadly though, Sony up to this point hasn't supported samples of books on their own store. Will they with the T1? Dunno.

I haven't used the Kindle in a while, but their strengths are pretty much what they said on stage today: the end-to-end services. It isn't just about being able to read the books, but the whole end-to-end experience of buying books, downloading them, etc is very good. And the device experience is competent enough to beat out a lot of the ePub readers with the exception of the Sony in my mind.

So to me, the choice is between the better book buying experience built into the Kindle, and the more "We sell you a device, and while we want you to buy from us, we recognize that books are books no matter what the source" style of the Sony. So in a sense, Amazon is selling you an e-ink portal into their Kindle services, while Sony is selling you an electronic book library you can take with you that can download from the web. It's a bit more about which philosophy matches what you want the device to be.

09-28-2011, 05:15 PM	#87
Kolenka <Insert Wit Here> Posts: 1,017 Karma: 1275899 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Puget Sound Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Forma	The big deal to me is that while you have DRM in both camps, I can at least buy a book from where it is more convenient with the ePub based readers. I get a gift card to Sony? Sure. Kobo? Sounds good. Fictionwise? Why not. With Amazon, your choices are limited to Amazon within the limits of the DRM. And out of the ePub readers, I keep coming back to Sony because of the polish usually present in the software. It treats personal/side-loaded content like a first class citizen. There is usually nothing different between what I add from Feedbooks vs Sony's own store. Collections/Shelving is mature, and Calibre has so far been able to actually auto-create collections on the Sony for you which is a huge plus. The home screen is also a bit more useful than the competition (Nook, I'm staring at you). The T1 is also able to download and add books from any web page straight on the device itself. This makes it possible to download from places like Baen and Feedbooks without firing up a PC to do it. Or access your private collection that you have hosted somehow (Calibre is supposed to let you do this, but I haven't tried it). This is something even the Kindle can't do. Sadly though, Sony up to this point hasn't supported samples of books on their own store. Will they with the T1? Dunno. I haven't used the Kindle in a while, but their strengths are pretty much what they said on stage today: the end-to-end services. It isn't just about being able to read the books, but the whole end-to-end experience of buying books, downloading them, etc is very good. And the device experience is competent enough to beat out a lot of the ePub readers with the exception of the Sony in my mind. So to me, the choice is between the better book buying experience built into the Kindle, and the more "We sell you a device, and while we want you to buy from us, we recognize that books are books no matter what the source" style of the Sony. So in a sense, Amazon is selling you an e-ink portal into their Kindle services, while Sony is selling you an electronic book library you can take with you that can download from the web. It's a bit more about which philosophy matches what you want the device to be.