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Originally Posted by AprilHare
I'm not in the market for one but I imagine people will hang on for uber cheap.
The Sony Reader certainly can make a splash - I remember this from the early days of owning a PRS-500 when no-one else owned a ebook reader. "It's a Sony!" was heard with a note of jealousy from one fellow traveller at least..
Purchasing a Sony Reader now would be a matter of financial decision though. The old one is perfectly fine for what I need right now though.
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Sony really does make beautiful Readers. I've had a few "wow, it is so sleek" remarks about my 505 and 350.
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Originally Posted by Rizla
I'm skeptical about the K-Touch's total lack of physical buttons. I use a 650 and I mainly use the buttons to turn pages. We'll see...But I think touch-screen + buttons is better.
If the T1 is Android (unconfirmed) then it's a slam dunk that the T1 is a nicer piece of hardware than the K-Touch.
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I had been considering getting a Kindle (perhaps for Christmas) as a back up reader, as well as the PRS-T1. Now that you've reminded me about the T1 being Android (I think that I had read somewhere that it was confirmed), I realize that I could probably just get a Kindle app for it sometime down the line.
There are several features that have me choosing the T1 over the Kindle: the fact that there are quite a few books that I cannot get in .mobi that I can get in .epub (mostly Canadian lit and foreign language novels); also, I already have quite the .epub library and don't see a need to convert it. I only have a handful of Kindle books, and I can (and do) read them on my iPad. I make extensive use of the 12 dictionaries on my 350 and am happy to see that they will be included on the T1. I like the fact that I will be able to expand the memory with a card. Sony has had getter PDF functionality in the past, and I expect that it will remain the same with this new generation as well. I use PDF reflow quite often, and I like to be able to carry my journal articles with me when I am on the go, even though I do use tablets to read PDFs as well. While I am sad to see the metal bezel go this generation, I do believe that Sony had to cut costs where it could just to stay in the game. I will miss the ability to read .lrf files; I won't be getting rid of my 350, however, so I will be reading .lrf files on that device.