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Originally Posted by Elsi
I ordered the Kindle in January -- with a 5-week delay, it arrived in mid-February. I joined MobileRead while I was waiting for the Kindle, and it was here that I first heard of the Sony Reader and all the others. (I was totally surprised that *anyone* would want to read books on a PDA.) In mid-March, I finally saw a Sony in a Borders store and realized that I could have been happy (enough) with it. I did buy a Sony Reader early in the summer, so now I have both. I like them both, but rely on the Kindle for current releases.
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Opposite for me. I saw someone on the train with a new Sony PRS-505 right after Thanksgiving of last year. I'm an avid reader so I was very interested. The poor man spent the next 10 minutes answering my questions. Just before he got off the train he gave me a piece of paper with the name of the reader & model number, also this forum address (obviously he's a member here, hi whoever you are
). I came to this forum & read for hours about (Sony, the Kindle, & the Cybook Gen3). Visited all their websites, found all the reviews on the net at that time about each product. I still ended up purchasing the Sony 3 days later (I guess it was love at first sight). I try to love the Kindle since at that point there were more content to be had for the Kindle, the price of books, and I also have to admit - the wireless capability. But I could not get pass the look of the Kindle after seeing the Sony!
I'm really happy with my choice even though I would love to find a way to buy ebooks from Amazon without purchasing their Kindle!
