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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Don't worry about the buyers remorse. Will always happen if you let it. My first reader dropped $200+ in 6 months. But I really enjoyed it and asked myself was it worth the the slightly more than $1 a day to have it for those 6 months.
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Your first reader will always be a special case as:
1) Any reader will be lightyears ahead of no reader at all.
2) Your purchase and use of your first one cannot help but inform your opinion of what you want. (Parenthetically, I bought my PB360 as an intended cheap toe-in-the-water, expecting to eventually swap to a more expensive 10"+ reader if I found eReaders to my taste, but discovered that I really liked the smaller format.) A long-term eReader user is, to a considerable extent, paying to learn from any mistakes they may make with their first purchase.
With upgrades you are likely to (i) want to be more discerning in your choice & (ii) are under far less time pressure (up until the point that your current eReader breaks).
That said, there's currently very little likelihood of further
significant innovations, at least until HD plastic screens go mainstream, or of further
significant price-drops below currently available pricing. So as good a time as any (hence my money on the counter).
