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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Since most people tend to as I put it "fall in love" with their ebook readers its rather important to take notice when an owner of a particular reader talks ill about their reader.
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I don't know... I have a Kindle Touch and I like it very much, but still I can point out a few bad things:
- In the Netherlands, it has to be imported, making it the most expensive reader by far, at €169 (the Sony is €139, others are even cheaper).
- It supports only AZW and therefore only Amazon books. Not a problem for me because I know how to DeDRM and convert epubs, but it may be a problem for others.
- Free books from Amazon are often badly formatted, but you can get around that too (Gutenberg, MR, other sites, etc).
There are also some very good points:
- Reviewers said it was the best Touch-reader with regard to build quality. The build quality is indeed very good, and it is a point that weighs very heavily for me. After "well working software" it probably is the most important to me. I hate using flimsy products.
- It has tap-to-turn, which I vastly prefer over the swipe-to-turn of the Sony, and some other readers.
- It does not have any software problems as far as I can see, as opposed to the Sony T1, which is full of problems according to reviews. I hope this has been fixed by a firmware update. Same seems to go for the Kobo Touch.
And, to be honest, you can't complain about the price of something you have bought. If you don't like the price, then don't buy that product. Still, even if you do, you may not like the price at that moment, but it is not an ongoing problem. After you pay, the problem is gone. (Assuming you don't get into financial trouble and didn't pull out a loan at 300% interest to buy that reader.)