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Originally Posted by patrickt
I'm curious. Some people here have Kindles and Kobos and others I've never heard of. They want to jailbreak their devices and play with the gizmos. The ereaders as devices seem to fascinate them.
When I was first stepping into the world of ereaders I wasn't particularly interested in the specific device. I had waited for a common format and decided it wasn't coming so I was looking for a "system" that would give me the most books I wanted to read economically.
I didn't understand about the archaic and customer unfriendly laws at the time and live in one country and want to buy books in another. I selected the Kindle system as giving me the most of what I wanted. I bought my first Kindle without ever having seen a Kindle device. I've been happy with my choice for seven years.
When I first looked at ereaders, in 2009, the basic devices were very similar.
So, I'm curious. Was your choice driven by the device or by the availability of books you wanted to read?
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My initial choice was driven primarily by library access, since all my life, most of my reading has been through the library. In summer of 2011, that meant Kindle was NOT an option. So my first ereader was a Nook, thanks in part to the fact they'd just released Nook Wifi at $150.
A second consideration was the fact that Nook had a touchscreen. An old repetitive stress injury means that pushing buttons over and over gets painful. So, again, Kindle simply wasn't an option at that time as they only had models with buttons.
I didn't care for the Nook practice of having my purchased content separate from my sideloaded content, and moved to a Sony 950 a year later. From there to Kobo, as Kobo had the 6.8" screen option, front light and touchscreen.
In fact, it's only just this fall that Kindle has had a possibly viable option in the KOA2. (I say possibly, since some have found it difficult to hold.) I do own a Kindle Voyage, but use it primarily for proofreading. Now that there are more font size choices with the latest firmware update, I could use it for pleasure reading, but probably won't do so very often since I love the 7.8" screen on my Kobo Aura ONE. That device is just the perfect size. And has library access built in, so to speak.
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