Thread: So what e-reader do you use now you've given up on Sony?
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Old 04-04-2014, 01:31 PM   #129
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Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan View Post
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.
Considering Sony could have done like Diesel Books and others have done and said "We're closing, get your books now or they're gone" I'm not sure how you could say 10% not transferring is disheartening.

As has been pointed out by others, in some cases books that are on the Kobo site may not be the exact same edition (I know in at least one case the author had regained rights over the book so the old publisher version (which had been purchased from Sony) wasn't the same as the new author version that Kobo had).
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