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Originally Posted by azxswq
So, the reason for that is obvious. Software can be updated, but hardward is much much harder. What is the page-turn mechanism like between Kindle and Sony?
Thank you in advance of such a geeky question.
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i have a Prs_650 & previously owned a Kindle 3 & also a Kobo. Only the page turns on Kobo were slow; on both Sony & Kindle were fast as they need to be i.e. fit for purpose. note that both of these are also capable of mp3 playback, so CPU inside is sufficient for that task also.
the T1 will be as good as, if not better than, the 650 so I don't think you need to worry about CPU power. e-ink refresh speed is probably the limiting factor.
i think ,from memory, that Kindle will open a book a tad faster than Sony, & on the K3 you could skip forward or back one chapter with a single keypress of the 5 way button ( touch may not have that facility though). with Sony you have to go to book options, then TOC, then select. ( but once there you have multiple select options )
K has some extra layout options that sony lacks, like set line height & toggle normal/compressed word formatting & it works properly in landscape mode; the sony landscape mode seems designed only for pdf & mangles novels. I doubt that has changed in T1
A far more important geek factor, for me is that sony uses EPUB, wheras K uses mobi - which is old, proprietary, & lacks some epub features (like Drop-caps, background shading , nested TOC levels)
epub is an evolving open standard & sony reader firmware is upgradable so can keep up with changes