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Originally Posted by jbcohen
What criteria will you use to decide when to replace your current ebook reader? Clearly I will repalce it when my currrent one becomes unusable, will you replace it after a certain number of years?
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I will replace my reader when it either becomes inoperable (for whatever reason) or when it can no longer provide the functions that I want or think I need in order to enjoy reading current-generation ebooks.
The bottom line is that inoperability is likely to be the determining factor.
We are still using my 4.5-year-old Sony 505. I would not have replaced it except that I wanted to be able to get the
New York Times electronically without having to use my desktop PC to get the day's issue. So I bought the Sony 950 and gave my wife my 505.
Well getting the
Times electronically lasted about a week. My wife complained. She didn't like reading the
Times on the eInk screen and wanted the print subscription reinstated. I continued to use the 950 and she continued to read books on the 505, and so it remains 1.5 years after the purchase of the 950.
But then my wife saw the Nook Tablet with the special offer for the
Times and decided that would make a great gift for me. So now I have the 2 Sonys and a Nook Tablet, and I am getting the
Times electronically. We still use our Sonys for the bulk of our reading; the Tablet is used almost exclusively to read the
Times. I guess it will now be a whole lot of years before I buy another device.