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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Please and thank you are not the same. Please is asking for help. Thank you is for after you get the help.
If you want to use thank you the way you did, say thank you in advance.

Thank you for the English lessons! Truth to be told, not everyone grey up in America, being familiar with American manners. As a thought experiment, if you move eastwards from Europe to Asia, the tone of people interact with each other on a daily basis change accordingly. Everyone is fine with it. what can you do if you grew up in a different culture, and you are (just virtually) thrown into a different one? Other people might find you not so nice. For behavior which is completely the norm back home. So what to do?

There are 7 billion people on Earth, (300 million in the US), many speak English as a second language, but still bring their cultural backgrounds to the table. Is this an American or a World forum?

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I can translate how most people read your first post.
I am looking for a new ereader. Give me very long and detailed answers on what you think of each company so I don't have to do any work myself.
It came across as being told what to do, not asking for opinions. Comprehensive review is a very bad choice of words.

Let me translate back to my language how I feel you mistranslated me.
You say that I ask for members here to write original long posts, so I don't have to do original research. Which is not the case, at least, not what I intended. My assumption is that original research (long posts) already exist somewhere on the Internet, I would just like this topic to gather them to a convenient location.

Let's assume the Internet is a vast space and various people have already done their original research on this and that. Let me translate to myself how I understood your though process: If I understand you correctly, you suggest that people should do their research for themselves AND keep for themselves, not to publish it on an online forum, blog, or YouTube video (because it would just be too good for everybody to share... let's just keep it for ourselves). Otherwise, if people already publish their findings online, it is also reasonable (in my view) to collect links to others' previous findings in a convenient single post/thread for easy reference, which you suggest is too much, would be too much goodness of others' work, for reasons beyond me (against the spirit of the Internet as I see it). ;(

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

If I was going to ask for help, the first thing I would do is see if there are sub forums dedicated to the company and read the stuff there. Then I would start a thread that read something like this.
"Hi. I am in the market for a new ereader. I have been reading the forums and would like your opinions on the following companies (list of companies still interested in) if you have dealt with them. Thank you in advance."

If I'm asking for opinions on a bunch of e-readers, for me it's more logical to ask in the General forum, than pick X brand and ask its respective sub-forum. My 2 cents. Thanks.

[Seriously, I can't believe this topic.]