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Originally Posted by soulfuldog
Jeez eschwartz, calm down! Just because something is not well known or readily available in the centre of your universe doesn't mean it's insignificant to all?!
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I have no problem with it being significant to other people. If for no other reason than, something which I disagree with and think is stupid is still someone else's business, and they have the right to disagree, and etc.
When people poke their nose into this thread and start comparing the Kindle to their
insignificant in context ereader, attempting to justify the claim that the
Kindle should have audio, because, "well, my niche ereader has audio and OCR and a camera and TTS in 40 voices, and even a child's voice, and and and", then the ready availability of the device in
the centre of [my] universe the parts of the world where Kindles are popular, (and tangentially, the parts where the majority of ereaders of any description are sold,) is suddenly very relevant all of a sudden.
And because
this is not the first time @kacir has done a drive-by advertisement for the Pocketbook because of what I feel is an irrational bias against Amazon. I've got nothing against being biased against Amazon, but I'd prefer my biases to be reasonable, rather than the ones I do see which range from "doesn't have 32 years worth of book storage" (above) to "they're spying on me worse than the NSA" (I really hate this one).