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Originally Posted by kressg23
if you had the choice of Sony or Kindle, any version of either, which would you choose to do some typical reading of formats compatible with whichever device you chose? No PDFs, nothing out of the ordinary, just average novel reading.
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What the Kindle has over all the alternatives is convenience. The Kindle store is on average as good on pricing as you can get from a single store and has the most ebooks, buy from a web browser or from the device, one click and the ebook is queued up for download to the Kindle when you next turn on its whispernet connection. So if you are in range of Sprint's cell phone towers Kindle is great, and if not the standard download to a PC and transfer via USB option is still available. Also, where the whispernet is available you can get 1st chapter samples and only buy the book (from the Kindle) if you like it.
For lending library ebooks the PRS-505 wins. You can read MOBI library books on the Kindle, but only after running a script on them and the PDF library books that the PRS-505 can read are typically more numerous.
The Kindle 2's 1.4 GB of available internal memory is enough for most purposes. I put a 1 GB SD card in my Kindle 1 and I find that is plenty and I never take it out (it is hard to reach). On the other hand, I find the SD card slot on the Hanlin V3 very useful because it is so easy to pop cards in and out. If the Kindle 2 has an SD slot you might use it, but I doubt you will ever fill up the internal memory with novels.