[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by parkher

One thing: Kindle has no card slot.
I like having quite a large library with hierarchical directory structure on a 32 GB card.
The card also contains about 10 GB of dictionaries.

Sorry, never really bought into the must-have-lots-of-storage idea.
To quote myself on a different thread,

Originally Posted by eschwartz

And since the 3.5GB in the Kindle Touch can hold about 3,000 average-sized books, you don't need expandable memory. If you read 100 books A DAY you will still have one month of reading on your Kindle. At a more reasonable but still exorbitant 3 books a day, you will have nearly 3 YEARS worth. I'm sure somewhere along the way you can get to a computer and swap them for new ones.
(Same logic applies to every other eReader, including the Kindle Paperwhite which has (shudder) a measly 1.5 GB and about a year's worth of books.)

I have been able to get off my high horse for the sake of comic/manga readers but I cannot personally fathom the need for 10GB of dictionaries which may be nearly as bad as the guy who wanted an offline copy of Wikipedia, Just In Case.

The intended use-case of ereaders is for the consumption of literary material, not access to extensive libraries of PDF manuals or archiving the internet or portions thereof or digitally reproducing a linguistics department, and 4GB is more than enough for any normal kind of use.

And speaking of hierarchical folder layouts, you can browse by directories with KOReader and probably CoolReader too... but I prefer using the default reader with Collections Manager kindlet to create nested collections, which do everything hierarchical directories do except more, because you can file books in multiple locations. Although this only works on fw<5.4.2 but that suits my Kindle Touch.
(I think tags are far superior to boring filesystem directories. )

That is probably the main reason, other reasons can be overcome by hacking Kindle and installing CR, but still, these features are as if deliberately insulting:
- the screen keeps glowing even when the light level is at the minimum - so "e-ink" becomes a false advertising

There is a hack for that, if it really bothers you. The vast, vast, VAST majority of Kindle owners do not care or even notice, so I take offense at your label of "insulting", whether deliberate by Amazon or not. And it is not false advertising either, so quit with the FUD. E-ink is an ink-display technology, that in no way denies the in-tandem use of lights.

- no support for the most common e-book formats such as epub and fb2 - so "e-reader" becomes a false advertising

FB2 a common format?

EPUB is nearly as common as AZW3 and it doesn't bother me to no end that Kobo and Sony don't support it, and Kobo at least supports MOBI... but Sony doesn't. Mind you, not only is MOBI/AZW3 the most common format, they share the mobipocket databse formatting which actually predates EPUB so technically they are even the industry standard for multiple reasons.

Assuming you really need support for this "commonest format", and I guess converting is morally offensive, fine. Go install CR or KOReader. But how is it "false advertising"? It most certainly is an ereader, I read ebooks on it (almost) every day...

So please get off your white horse, and most of all stop spreading FUD about this being false advertising.

Hm, I suggest switching from Sony to Sony
T1 is a pretty great reader already, unless, perhaps it was not rooted?
The point is: Sony is still the best and there is nothing better to switch to.

How utterly cute you are. Perhaps you should consider that nothing is ever absolutely perfect and it all depends on what people value. Amazon Kindles provide a number of services and features Sony does not (and I assume vice versa). As I am sure Kobo and other devices as well, although I cannot speak from personal experience.
In this case, a frontlight.

Your absolutism is not, IMNSHO, very good advice.

I see now: the author of the thread wants to switch from T1 to a device with front light.
I should have stayed away from this thread, as I am an e-ink purist and I completely don't understand people who want front light, sorry

I am an E-ink purist, and I would be very happy with a frontlit E-ink device myself, if the Kindle PW only had a dedicated home button the same way pretty much any other handheld device does. So I stick with my KT. But I still understand the desire for a frontlight, and nevertheless manage to be an E-ink purist... because I actually know what E-ink means.