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Originally Posted by l_macd
Not having a go at all, I'd just love to find someone who has used both the T1 and KT and could honestly say one is better than the other for a concrete reason. Or perhaps, as I suspect, they are pretty evenly matched and any preference is going to be down to the individual?
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I've been thinking about it, and I think that the "concrete reason" you are looking for comes down to this:
If you are a newbie, and especially if you are not the kind of person inclined to engage technology on anything other than an "it just works" level, you probably should start off with the KT. The reason is that the KT is part of an ecosystem which is self-contained and sufficient for the inexperienced or "it just works" EBR user's needs.
As you become more experienced with EBRs, and learn your individual preferences, you might migrate to an EBR which fits you better. A better fit is likely going to be something involving at least some subjectivity:
(1) You might like how the T1 fits in your hand better than how the KT does.
(2) You might like the fonts & relative font sizes on one better than on the other.
(3) You might like having the option to use touch or buttons to page forward/back, which the T1 gives you but the KT doesn't.
(4) You might prefer to read against the side colors of one of the T1s rather than the grayishbrownish color of the KT.
(5) You might like being able to write notes on the T1 with a stylus.
(6) You might prefer the T1 page refresh time to that of the KT - OTOH, you might not like the black screen effect that comes with the T1's refreshes.
(7) You might like having an EBR not as closely tied to a walled garden of the Amazon ecology.
For me, all these items except (5) (I don't do notes) come down on the side of the T1 rather than the KT.
I wonder how many people will actually have meaningful experience with both the T1 and the KT? My own experience is from having had both Kindles and Sonys in the past. The only time I have ever preferred a Kindle is when Amazon got out in front of the Sony technology, or where Sony did something that didn't work out all that well, like the 600 screen. I suspect that most people who own both have acquired them in a sort of technologically staggered fashion - the latest iteration of the two EBRs.