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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I disagree with this. The Reader does not support dictionaries, highlighting, searching, annotations, wikipedia, web reader. Granted the 700 adds some of those features but at the cost of screen clarity which seems to me to be the most important part of any reader.
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Agreed on the screen part. The 700 is a failure in my book.
But the Kindle fares no better. I've held it and used it, and found it extremely uncomfortable. So to me it's about as useful as the 700: I'd rather read a pbook.
On the topic of "dictionaries, highlighting, searching, annotations, wikipedia, web reader"... depends entirely on what you want from an electronic reading device. I want two things:
1. The ability to store lots of books.
2. The ability to read those books comfortably.
Those are the basic requirements of any reading device. The Kindle fails on #2. Annotations, highlighting etc are not going to change that. And those features by themselves, while potentially useful, are not really on my wishlist. They're gimmicks. I didn't buy an electronic reader so I can surf the web, annotate my books or use a dictionary.
I bought it to read books.
And you can't say I'm "one of the few" who find the Kindle unergonomic. It's a well known fact, like the PRS 700's unusable screen.