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patrickt · 10-05-2011, 07:04 AM

I find the attitude of "more features is clearly better" to be ludicrous. Not wanting what someone else wants is not synonymous with inferior.

I want a small, compact, lightweight ereader. I want buttons on the left and right for moving pages. I want an on-screen keyboard instead of the nasty mechanical keyboard with tiny keys and letters you can't read. I have no interest in 3G and a WiFi-only is perfect. Oh, and I just want to read books. I don't want to play games, surf the net, do email, or make phone calls with my ereader.

Let me see, which Kindle meets "my" needs? Oh, golly, it's the $79 Kindle Basic.

10-05-2011, 07:04 AM	#25
patrickt Wizard Posts: 1,221 Karma: 8381518 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Oaxaca, Mexico Device: Paperwhite 4 X 2	I find the attitude of "more features is clearly better" to be ludicrous. Not wanting what someone else wants is not synonymous with inferior. I want a small, compact, lightweight ereader. I want buttons on the left and right for moving pages. I want an on-screen keyboard instead of the nasty mechanical keyboard with tiny keys and letters you can't read. I have no interest in 3G and a WiFi-only is perfect. Oh, and I just want to read books. I don't want to play games, surf the net, do email, or make phone calls with my ereader. Let me see, which Kindle meets "my" needs? Oh, golly, it's the $79 Kindle Basic.