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Originally Posted by HarryT
When was that, as a matter of interest?
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I don't know, Harry--about 12, 16 months back, give or take?
I also tend to do a very non-scientific, casual poll of our clients. I ask them what devices they have. Most don't have the Fire, the HD, HDX, etc. Most have K2's, DXes, K3's, PPW's (very popular), and the like.
Granted...maybe I'm over-sensitive to it. But Amazon seems to think it's still quite important, and I do speak to them relatively often. (I don't know if that's true. I don't know if my "relatively" is often, compared to other formatters and/or publishers, but...it seems often enough to me.) I find that the rush to dismiss the KF7 format is premature, caveat:
as near as I can tell.
Warning:
utterly unscientific polls conducted here!!! ;-) Just things like "what reader do you have," or "what reader do you use most, if you have more than one," etc.
I don't claim to be the Great and Powerful Oz, but the KF7's seem to still be keepin' on, keepin' on, thus far.
I'd also note that
for myself, I read on the Voyage, most often. Of all the devices I have. That's KF8,
yes; but I use it mostly because it's light and convenient, and I read a lot. Because it was cheap, I didn't bother with an Otterbox for it, unlike everything else, so, it's quite light to read upon for my old-bag wrists--which sorely deserve a break at the end of the day, when I've been pounding on a keyboard for 10 hours a day. I don't use the K2, primarily because of battery life. I'd use it if it lasted as long as the Voyage or PPW.
I use the Fire when my Voyage peters out, if the PPW isn't handy, OR (this is important) when reading non-fiction that has a lot of images--the clarity of the tables, etc., is better, IMHO, on the Fire. Or...more visible, I guess, against a white background.
Offered solely FWIW.
Hitch