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Originally Posted by cvkemp
I loved my Kindle Kbrd. But to be honest I love the PW2 even better. I guess I am just a touch screen type of guy.
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I've had a Cybook Gen3, at the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008. It used a five-point controller to navigate the cursor. However...
- Worst: the stuff I wanted to read was not available in EPUB
- Calibre was just in its infancy. It wasn't even called Calibre yet.
- In the end, I didn't like the five-point controller.
I sold the device after a few months.
Then there was the e-book boom of 2010, and in 2011, the KTouch was released. Sugar on the cake was that Calibre was now a powerful and mature e-book manager/convertor (and it has gotten better since, even including an e-book editor).
I never looked back to normal books, except if the normal book is:
A. A reference work / study material (flipping pages is still faster than swiping)
B. A very high-end hardcover edition with lots of illustrations, especially if color
C. I want or need to read something that is not available as an ebook.
A. would be any illustrated textbook.
B. would be the illustrated hardcover version of Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. I just *WANT* those. There are a few other books I also want in paper, because of the illustrations.
C. would be History of Middle Earth, Part 3 to 12.
Everything else, which would be basically anything I'd previously read in paperback, goes onto the Kindle. Even if I love a book, I won't get it in paper if all I'm getting is a book with text in it (not even if it's a very well made book). The paper book has to have some sort of huge advantage, such as illustrations, or not be available as an e-book, or be more convenient in paper.