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Originally Posted by Bertolt
I agree that the Kindle is a pain but Amazon has more ebooks than any other online shop and for me, living in Spain with practically no English bookshops, the more ebooks I have access to the better. For the same reason I will make sure that the ereader I buy this time will NOT be a Kindle.
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I hear ya. And ya know, if you're going to save your Kindle books via the method I suggested above, it's really easy once you set it up. Calibre has one-click conversion, so that's easy. But the set-up to remove DRM if you need to do that first is a little tedious. Still, once it's set up, you never have to think about it again.
I don't buy from Kindle because I don't want to support them, but if there's a free book on Amazon I want, I'll download and convert it. Takes 2 seconds.
As Gari said, it's ideal if you can go see them yourself. If you can't, for whatever it's worth, my Kobo is pretty snappy with the 1.9.11 firmware (which is the 2nd most recent update). I don't know whether it's faster than the Sony, but I have no complaints.
Aesthetically, the Kobo has love 'em or hate 'em looks for sure. I sort of like its double personality - slick tech from the front, quaintness from the back.