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Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan
I started with a 505, replaced into the 600 series when I had a screen crack and replaced again to a 650 on another screen crack. The battery on my 650 is marginal now, so I'm giving serious consideration to replacement.
The more I think about it, though, the more I'm leaning towards going back to paper. (Not saying I will, as there are many things I love about the e-Ink experience not the least is the weight and that I can have 281 books and a host of magazines in one reader, and never came anywhere close to filling it.)
But the reality of the Sony closure makes it pretty clear to me that so long as eBooks are DRM-ridden and in proprietary formats, they aren't really my property, any more than the several hundred dollars worth of music I lost over the years due to DRM. So I'm not anxious to transfer my account to Kobo, nor am I anxious to keep using my Reader or purchase a replacement for it.
If I were to change, I would either purchase a Kindle if I really still want the e-Ink feel or I'd more likely invest in an iPad Air. (When I think about the number of re-purchases of Sony's I've made, I'm really on par with an iPad's price.)
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I went ahead and did the migration link. 98 of 109 books migrated. (And gives me a target for how many non-Sony-bought titles I have - the vast majority of them, it seems.) So, 10% failure rate, including the Bible (NIV), The Hobbit, and the LOTR trilogy (as one book.) All the others I'm not going to miss, really, but a 10% failure rate was not very heartening.
ETA: And now I searched Kobo, and I found that 5 of the 11 titles which didn't transfer including the Bible (NIV,) The Hobbit, and the LOTR Trilogy are available for purchase from Kobo.
So I called Kobo using the phone number given. And had one of the most frustrating customer service calls of my life, which ended in being directed to update my Reader software and this will somehow cause those books to migrate. Hmm.... I'm not buying it.
(And essentially being REFUSED when I asked for a supervisor.)
Maybe these instructions will work. But I could see this process crashing their availability on the PC that my Reader program is stored on, too.
So now I'm strongly disposed to just leave everything as it is, replace the battery on my 650 so I still have the books, write off the $51.62 (in Kobo prices) for those five titles until my 650 dies and then repurchase them if I feel like I want to.