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Originally Posted by Vmurph
I feel so relieved now that I've decided not to buy a "replacement" Kindle until the one I have breaks or dies.
This means that I don't need to spend anymore money on Kindles for a good long while. Not just now, but it also means that I won't even upgrade next year when they release a Voyage 2. Not if my current Voyage is still working perfectly well.
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This is actually the first time in Kidle history that I have no more features or improvements on my wish list.
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I won't upgrade my e-reader until I see something coming along that I *really* see as an improvement.
My first reader was a Cybook Gen 3, end of 2007. Bad navigation (buttons only), bad content availability, and the content that WAS available was of bad quality or it had DRM. I sold that reader at a big loss.
I still kept an eye on ereaders and the contents. End of 2008/first half of 2009 (IIRC) the first versions of the scripts that would become the current Apprentice Alf DeDRM plugins started appearing; buggy and not working half the time, but it was a beginning. Calibre was maturing rapidly. In 2010, finally, the ebook boom happened, and in 2011 Amazon introduced the Kindle Touch. Calibre was already an awesome application at that time, and DeDRM was reliable and working for Kobo and Amazon books.
I bought the Touch, and never looked back (except for books unavailable in ebook format).
The only thing I wished for was an internal light, as the Touch was still a lot darker than even the darkest paperback I owned. In 2012, the Paperwhite brought that light, and I upgraded. I'm still using that reader right now.
As long as nothing comes along that I regard as a really large improvement with regard to reading (note: reading, not reader functions) I won't be upgrading.