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Originally Posted by Penforhire
To those who don't give a fig about asthetics, why do you figure some of us bought other devices? Hint, it wasn't the price or availability for me. If the next Kindle is a bit sexier then I could be a buyer. So it isn't all about fan-boi-ism. And if you think the Kindle is more sexy than ugly then I'm willing to bet you're in the minority (and probably thought Apple's Newton was "teh sex" too).
Amazon, with Bezos at the controls, has been one of my favorite companies. My household happily buys an awful lot of stuff from them and our Amazon Prime membership pays for itself in months. So I've got a dog in the fight even if I don't yet own a Kindle. Go Bezos!
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I have a Kindle but I'm not a fan of the aesthetics. It was a function-over-form decision for me. I'd rather have both, but if I have to sacrifice, I'll sacrifice beauty for functionality any day. The Kindle had more of my high-priority features than the other devices and better content selection. I thought the Sony was gorgeous but I was truly appalled that it lacked both searching and dictionary functions. You've got files and processing power. It seems like rather a no-brainer that these things could be brought together to do more than just display the files.