Another fence-sitter jumps...
Title says it all really; I've been sitting on the fence for far too long regarding an e-ink reader, for all the usual reasons - my PDA's really good enough, there's something better just around the corner, price, availability, will the Sony or Kindle come to the UK later this year, will Apple produce a reader that hooks up to iTunes - but basically I'm just tired of waiting.
So I've ordered a Cybook; I figure now the updated version is out, it's a mature enough platform just to be able to buy and use (i.e. the early adopters have done the fine-tuning for me - thanks!) and I'm generally pretty happy with Mobipocket - I logged in to my account today for the first time in probably 8 months or so, and all my previously bought books are there, including a few I'd forgotten about. I'm not interested in reading PDFs on a small screen, so any problems therein are a non-issue for me.
I bought the Cybook direct from Bookeen and I paid £280-odd for the Cybook and cover, delivered; I know I could have taken advantage of the cheap dollar and bought one from the US, but I reckoned the savings involved are pretty modest when compared to a full warranty you get from buying direct.
So anyway, that's my reasoning. Let you know how I get on when it arrived in a couple of weeks.
Cheers, Pete.
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