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In the end I reckon, any half decent ereader will do, as you always get used to it.
Sure, there will always be some bugbears ... the Kindle Keyboard for instance, which I like a lot, has some irritations ... like the Back button being too close to the Down button ... no way should they ever have been put near one another. Another is not being able to go from the top of a page straight to the bottom on many menus ... sure there is a trick you can use, but not when assigning an ebook to a collection ... which is where I've always wanted it most. There are a few other things, but it is a damn good reader, which counts most.
Then there is the Kindle Paperwhite, which I also have and which is an improvement on the Kindle Keyboard in several ways, but not quite as good in others. Each have their strengths & flaws. But like I said, you get used to them. The biggest problem I find with newer models, is they are full of what i call 'clever dick' stuff ... they try to pre-guess your intent, which can be very irritating at times ... and then they don't do it when they really should. Like with the Paperwhite, when you are assigning an ebook to a collection, having done many clicks to get to the right place, only to have to repeat all that for the next ebook, which you often want to assign to the same collection ... a lot of clicks could be saved I find ... clever but not really clever ... just mostly annoying. The capacity of the Kindle Paperwhite is less than half the Kindle Keyboard, which is disappointing, but as it doesn't support audio, it is still a fair capacity considering. The audio on the Kindle Keyboard is pretty crappy anyway, but to be honest I never really use it ... the 30 or so music MP3's I have on it are for a rainy day, and though I have an audiobook as well, and a podcast or two, I am not really into them.
In the end though I really like both the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Paperwhite ... especially the substrate light layer of the latter, which makes for better night reading ... being touch is more intuitive as well, though after you get into a book you really aren't that conscious of having to click the next page button on the Kindle Keyboard.
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