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Originally Posted by rcentros
There's actually a whole lot of good choices. I've chosen too many of them.
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In a way too many good choices is one of the problems with ereaders. They're all so good that we spend a lot of time debating the very smallest points. The fact is there aren't any bad ones, at least not among the major brands.
At the same time they're somewhat limited. Since booksellers sell ereaders we get the device that sells the most books for the bookseller. Any feature that detracts from their book sales isn't there. We can't access Dropbox or buy directly from other stores, for example.
If ereaders were made by Samsung and Sony and Asus they'd let us buy from whatever store we like, support every possible format and DRM, accept wireless transfers from phones or PC's and even allow the use of thumb drives.
Of course they'd cost more. They'd be worth it, too.
Barry