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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
I'll stick with my current kindle. Like desertgrandma, I have learned to live with the warts - I never accidentally turn pages anymore, and I know when to hit the button so that the page will be refreshed at exactly the right time. The only thing that might get me to buy a new device is if it worked with the kindle store and the public library. Even then, I doubt I will live long enough to read the books already on my kindle, especially if I keep adding them at the same rate!
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I read Mobipocket library books on my Kindle. Sadly most of the books are ADE, especially the new releases. Still, I've found many good titles in .mobi format. You just need to either use Igor's scripts or strip the DRM (and cross your hear that you will not keep them past the the three week lending period). Sony will read the ADE books currently, but sadly I just don't find their feature set acceptable. I wouldn't mind if a 505 dropped in my lap but it's hard to justify the money and weight on the planet to actually buy one considering the numbers of library titles I want still isn't particularly overwhelming. And, heck, I live walking distance from a really huge library of paper books.
Just an aside on the page turning thing: My latest read is a fairly large .tpz book. About 950 pages. It wasn't available anywhere I could find in any other format. It's been driving me nuts because I now have an ingrained body memory for when to hit the button and this book is so much slower. I'd done a bunch of housecleaning right before I downloaded it, too. I was moving stuff off the internal memory to the SD card. I think the indexing slowed it down for days (yes, actual days) because for the first few days it was taking 4-5 seconds to turn a page. It made me stabby.