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Originally Posted by sealbeater
What's the point of buying a device that reads text out loud (why anyone would is beyond me) if you dont' have control over what you want to have be read out loud?
Thank you Amazon, for confirming my life choices.
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I actually did buy a 505 and not a Kindle, but I strongly considered the Kindle. I was viewing it more as a service. Sort of like Netflix, iTunes movie rentals, or even my old World of Warcraft account that I haven't touched in eons.
I know that Kindle is saying that it's providing you with your own personal, digital e-Library.. And they do charge you a la carte and don't have expiration dates, but due to the tight DRM and accompanying uncertainty of my continued ownership of what I buy--and I'm sure their lower prices are probably part of that--I view it as a service.
I decided against it, because the a la carte prices are still a bit too high for me. The newspaper and blog prices were ok, but that's not enough content (plus, it's easy to get those for free through Caliber). Also, for a device that is essentially a wormhole between your money and Amazon's bank account (a one-way wormhole, I'm afraid), I thought it was a bit pricey. What ever happened to give away the razor, and sell the blades? I feel like with Kindle, I'd be paying for both.
And of course, I was also looking for a device I could just own and use as my own device, with my own content. The Kindle stayed in the running, because I figured I could always just convert everything to mobi, but that was a feeble way to paint it as advantageous.
Still, in terms of its comprehensiveness as a service, I think the Kindle is pretty impressive. Netflix is a better deal, though. I think. Until you watch everything, anyway :-)