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I'm late to this party, but I have decided to chime in anyway.
I own a Kindle and I really like it. Personally, I think the Sony looks better, but if I had to replace my reader I would get another Kindle. Even though the Sony looks better, the Kindle isn't big and klunky. Plus, the big buttons that allow you to change pages no matter how you are holding the book is actually kind of nice (form should follow function).
As far as "running pearl scrips and much screwing around to get content purchased elsewhere onto the Kindle", I'd say you are right and wrong on that one. The vast majority of items I have on my Kindle were not bought at Amazon. Most of my content was downloaded for free and none of this required any pearl scripts or difficulty what-so-ever. However, some of these free files were missing author information or contained misspellings, so I did use a pearl script to go in and fix these errors. I also wanted to be able strip out the DRM in case I ever upgraded to some cool future device that wasn't a Kindle, so I have used a pearl script to strip the DRM. I also had a couple html files that I wanted to convert into a Kindle formatted book, and I used mobicreator to create my book. I have only bought 1 book (the Longman Dictionary) that wasn't available from Amazon, and I used these tools so that I could load it onto my PC (I never planned on reading the dictionary on my Kindle and wanted it for other purposes). The point is that I don't view these tools as negative for the Kindle, but see the fact that they exist as a positive for the Kindle.
Lastly, CONTENT IS KING!!! Then again, maybe PRICE IS KING!!! Either way, the Kindle has about 200,000 available titles and individual titles are cheaper (or at least the same price) than the same title bought anywhere else.
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