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Originally Posted by stonetools
I'm thinking that some of things folks are calling a "down grade" aren't really a "down grade " at all. Let's take storage. How many books do you really need ( or even WANT) to have on your KIndle at any one time? The Amazon blurb claims it can hold 1400 books. Let's say they are off by a factor of two. Do you really need more than 700 books on your Kindle at any one time? Seriously?
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In essence, I agree. To add to this - while I do keep a lot of books on my Kindle, more than the 700 you used in your example, some of the features that made me choose my K3 3G no longer apply. I now have a smartphone so I no longer use my Kindle for emergency web browsing. I rarely have books sent from Amazon directly to my Kindle, especially since most of my books don't come from Amazon. Therefor, I don't need the 3G any longer.
I find I don't really take notes, so I no longer really need the keyboard. The games I play mostly rely on the d-pad anyway.
If you remove the features I'm not really using, you're pretty much left with the K4-NT. That's streamlining, not a downgrade.
And in my case, I doubt it would be a replacement, it would be an addition. I would have wanted a Touch, but that was ruled out when they left off the page turn buttons.