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Originally Posted by leebase
There are no more independant eInk devices to speak of. Surely not of the quality of the Sony line. Pretty much "eco system" plays like Amazon, Kobo and Nook are all that's left. And only Amazon has a healthy business.
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You may not remember, but Sony originally was well and truly locked into it's own ecosystem with the LFX format (DRMed LRF). The Sony Reader software was very feature poor. And when Sony went with ePub, they remained feature poor. Some of the Sony Readers were some of the worse Readers ever. The 600, 900, 700 were all awful. The hardware design did get better when Sony have out with the x50 line. But still an old version of RMSDK without hyphenation. Sony remained behind the times in their firmware until the T3 came out and that wasn't sold in the US.
So in terms of quality, overall Sony wasn't great. Sony did get better with the T line. But at that point, the hardware wasn't anything special. My Kobo Aura H2O is of better quality the the T line from Sony.