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Originally Posted by carld
I can't say I have any problems with the Kindle's design, at all. I think the cover works very well, my kindle doesn't fall out, it doesn't need velcro, and I rarely hit buttons I don't intend to. It feels very much like a book to me, and the thickness doesn't bother me one notch.
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To each his own.
I will say my wife loves her Kindle, and she says that she rarely hits the wrong buttons now, although it still happens. According to her, it took a few days to get used to the fact that you can't actually hold it , you have to essentially hold the cover, or lay it on something. For me, this is unacceptable, since I read by holding the book in one hand with either my left or right hand, and the Kindle just makes it very uncomfortable for me to do that. The new Sony 505 design also bothers me because although they fixed it for right handers by moving the page buttons over to the right, the concave scoop they took out of the right side makes it hard for your thumb to securely hold the book.
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Originally Posted by tlrowley
Have you used a Kindle for any length of time, or are you simply summarizing the knee-jerk, negative, it's not as pretty as my iPod, reviews that are out there?
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I've read a couple of books on the one my wife owns. I went back to my Sony with a heartfelt sigh of relief. I couldn't hold it with my right hand, because I couldn't page back, and I couldn't hold it at the bottom, no page buttons, and I couldn't hold it with my left without folding the cover over backwards, which seems sacriligious.
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Originally Posted by tlrowley
No, I'm making the point that very few people have the same negative view of the Kindle after using it for more than a second or two.
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Well, I still have the same negative review despite having used it for many hours. Sorry about that. It really is a great device and is doing a huge amount to make eBooks more common, but only the most hardcore fanboys would insist that it shouldn't be redesigned somewhat.
Things I really like about the Kindle: Whispernet, large selection, removable battery, software interface (other than the lack of collections, it's very well done)
Things I really don't like about the Sony: Sony Connect Software (Especially since they disabled the ability to drag from the file system directly into the book). I wish you could remove the status bar, or at least make it reversed from it's current colour scheme. The aforementioned scoop on the right side which causes your thumb to slip off while holding it.
On the whole though, I vastly prefer my Sony, not least because of Calibre