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Old 07-09-2008, 12:32 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Well, we all obviously have different feelings about that. In the year that I owned my Sony Reader, I didn't buy a single book from the Sony Store, so it would be irrelevent to me whether or not it survived - I prefer to either create my own books, or convert commercial eBooks from LIT format.

Repair was never an option for those of us who live outside the US, so there's nothing lost there.
Agreed. But I don't think you are typical of the users the Sony Reader (or the Amazon Kindle) is aimed at. Those folks want to download and read current titles in ebook format, which means paying for content and dealing with DRM.

They don't know how to and and likely aren't interested in creating their own ebooks, and haven't a clue about stripping DRM from .LIT ebooks and converting. And if they lose or break their reader, and the device is no longer made or supported, they have a library of paid for content they can't use.

For you, the objections I outlined are not an issue. They wouldn't be for me either, but I don't assume I'm a typical user.
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