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Originally Posted by spec2
It does puzzle me why Kindle owners act as if it's the first and only eReader on the market, but let them have their fun. If I wanted a Kindle 2.0 (and I did think about it briefly) I would buy one. But honestly, to me all eReaders are basically the same. I picked the Sony because it had good fit and finish and was more affordable than the others.
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I first heard about electronic paper years ago, but I had no idea there were already usable e-ink devices available to the public until the Kindle. (That and trying to find a demo Kindle at Fry's one day and only finding a Sony e-reader, lol!) It's a problem with marketing on the part of other e-reader manufacturers. Amazon has played the Kindle hard, and it's working.
As far as all e-readers being equal... well, I'd rather go with the company that has a huge, established & stable library behind them. Seeing that nobody has quite figured out a good DRM model, it's good to stick with the big guys until the solution arrives. Or else you're stuck with a) a proprietary file type or DRM that went digitally extinct, or b) being at the mercy of what you can find that has a more or less global format that is open-source. Thankfully with ebooks, guys like the founder of Project Gutenberg have been conscientiously working on keeping e-books in usable formats for years.
Edit: By the way, the Kindle talk is only going to get worse until the Mobile Read Kindle giveaway is over.
You gotta register AND participate in the community to be eligible, and how many people who are hoping to win a Kindle 2 will really care about other topics?