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Lady Blue · 11-04-2013, 03:35 PM

My first eReader was a Sony 500. I could find many places besides the Sony Reader Store back then to get public domain books. That was perfect for me because I loved the old history and biography books from long ago that were hard (or impossible) to acquire otherwise.

My sister (who lived halfway across the country from me) was always an avid reader as well, but not very technologically inclined. I told her about the Sony Reader and the next thing I knew she had purchased the 505 that had just come out. After awhile the Kindle keyboard came out, and my sister's husband bought her one so she could bypass the computer side loading and download directly from Amazon. She loved it and is still using it, but is finding much she doesn't like about it anymore.

In the meantime, I moved on to the Sony 505, 550, T1, and T2. Sony had been able to read lrf, txt, pdf and epub and at last could download directly from the Reader Store and better yet directly from local libraries via OverDrive. It did pretty much everything I wanted, so I wasn't interested in changing over to Amazon's proprietary format with no easy library access.

When Kindle came out with the paperwhite I was slightly more interested, but not enough to take the plunge.

Meanwhile, my sister and husband moved to within 250 miles of where I live, I was visiting and she showed me all the Amazon books she'd purchased. We both have the same genre interests and she thought it a shame that she couldn't lend me the books she *owned.* Together we stumbled across a way around that inconvenience.

This past Summer I had accumulated $100 in Best Buy cash rewards certificates that would be expiring before long and had no idea how I wanted to use them until we thought of putting them toward the purchase of a Kindle PW (cost be $19 + tax), register it with my sister's Amazon account, and now I can read all the books she purchased, as well as some I've purchased on her account. I wouldn't have purchased a Kindle otherwise, but it's been a win/win for me since I did. I enjoy my Kindle & Sony readers immensely and will never run out of good books to read.

Needless to say, I lucked out in this particular situation. Under normal circumstances I would NOT have purchased a Kindle.

11-04-2013, 03:35 PM	#15
Lady Blue the snarky blue one Posts: 6,001 Karma: 3877825 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: deep in the heart Device: PRS500, 505 & 600, PRST1 & T2, Kindle PW, Moto Razr, Galaxy Tab 2-10"	My first eReader was a Sony 500. I could find many places besides the Sony Reader Store back then to get public domain books. That was perfect for me because I loved the old history and biography books from long ago that were hard (or impossible) to acquire otherwise. My sister (who lived halfway across the country from me) was always an avid reader as well, but not very technologically inclined. I told her about the Sony Reader and the next thing I knew she had purchased the 505 that had just come out. After awhile the Kindle keyboard came out, and my sister's husband bought her one so she could bypass the computer side loading and download directly from Amazon. She loved it and is still using it, but is finding much she doesn't like about it anymore. In the meantime, I moved on to the Sony 505, 550, T1, and T2. Sony had been able to read lrf, txt, pdf and epub and at last could download directly from the Reader Store and better yet directly from local libraries via OverDrive. It did pretty much everything I wanted, so I wasn't interested in changing over to Amazon's proprietary format with no easy library access. When Kindle came out with the paperwhite I was slightly more interested, but not enough to take the plunge. Meanwhile, my sister and husband moved to within 250 miles of where I live, I was visiting and she showed me all the Amazon books she'd purchased. We both have the same genre interests and she thought it a shame that she couldn't lend me the books she owned. Together we stumbled across a way around that inconvenience. This past Summer I had accumulated $100 in Best Buy cash rewards certificates that would be expiring before long and had no idea how I wanted to use them until we thought of putting them toward the purchase of a Kindle PW (cost be $19 + tax), register it with my sister's Amazon account, and now I can read all the books she purchased, as well as some I've purchased on her account. I wouldn't have purchased a Kindle otherwise, but it's been a win/win for me since I did. I enjoy my Kindle & Sony readers immensely and will never run out of good books to read. Needless to say, I lucked out in this particular situation. Under normal circumstances I would NOT have purchased a Kindle.