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A shame, but no big surprise.
I've had every Sony reader from the PRS500 through the T1. I even had the awful 700 and 600 readers, though both of those went back to the store within two weeks.
Sony learned the wrong lesson from their experiment, it wasn't that people don't want frontlights, it's that they don't want a nearly unreadable reader in exchange for a bad frontlight. But apparently Sony decided it was a matter of honor not to return to a technology that they had tried before, especially if others had made it better.
I had the Kobo Glo, and would've gladly returned to Sony for the T3 if they had only put a light in it. It was the one feature I wouldn't give up, much as I liked the Sony interface vs the Glo one.
However I am currently quite pleased with my Kobo Aura, and while it is sad to see the originator of the market (and the manufacturer of many devices that I've owned and enjoyed) leave, they dug their own grave here.
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