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Originally Posted by Poppaea
Actually your comment has pretty much nothing to do with this thead. Barry answered on another post about Amazon having had a large ereader once before.
Regarding the topic, I wouldn't buy it but this is because I don't like to buy too much from Amazon.
As long as epubs are the most common form of ebooks in Europe, buying any other brand than a Kindle makes more sense anyway. I can get my ebooks from pretty much every store I want and get books from the library too. None of this would be possible with a Kindle no matter how large.
But I do think they will make one. Thus far they always were very fast to come up with a copy of other companies successes.
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Re "I don't like to buy too much from Amazon":
I'm in the UK and getting on in years and have been a premium paying customer of theirs for many, many years and have always received excellent service. *However* - it is now all coming to an end for the simple reason that due to old age, I can no longer handle their silly, "environment friendly", reams and reams of brown paper which are stuffed inside their huge parcels and packages. I am sure that the much more modern equivalent of green air packs developed in Scandinavia would be more environmentally friendly, especially as so many forests would not be devoured by Amazon. Strange eh, "Amazon devouring forests ... " Oh well! But to get back to my point - as an old customer with arthritic hands, I am simply unable to handle these huge quantities of brown paper in every parcel. It is simply a foolish choice forced on the retailer by certain pressure groups.
Regarding the comment of, "epubs are the most common form of ebooks in Europe, buying any other brand than a Kindle makes more sense anyway", I find this to be rather naive (or possibly even foolish) because it is so absolutely simple to convert different formats these days.