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Originally Posted by haydnfan
My $30 Kindle 3 I bought off ebay does all of that too. You don't have a real point here other than being overly reductive. There are certain expectations in an ereader once you've passed the $200 price point and entered into premium territory.
It is unproductive to ridicule those that disagree with you.
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Sigh... My comment wasn't directed specifically at one poster, but at the whole, "let's take a great device, find one thing that bothers us about it, and then bang on that until nothing else matters," viewpoint. The simple truth is that the device works as intended. Is it perfect? No, of course it isn't, and neither is anything else. The whole thing boils down to a simple question: Are you (generic you, not specific you) going to focus your attention on the good things or the not good things?
From my standpoint, here are the good things:
- 8" screen
- Great screen
- Great front light
- Long battery life
- Weighs less than seven oz.
- Holds GOBS of books
- Works with Overdrive
- Auto-rotate is cool
- Physical buttons
- The wedge makes a handy place to hold it
- You can hack the settings on it
- You can use Calibre to sideload all kinds of books to it
- And probably more that I can't think of at the moment
Also from my standpoint, here are the not good things:
- Power button could be in a better place
- There's this odd little grayish stripe that runs down the edge of the screen. Sometimes it's hardly noticeable. Sometimes it's a little more obvious. if I don't use the front light, it isn't there at all. If the book is any good, then I don't even notice the silly thing.
There are just simply WAY more good things about this reader than there are disappointing things. Yet we all go on as if the light strip was going to cause the earth to stop spinning.
And for the record, I didn't ridicule anyone. I did say, however, that making a huge deal out of the little grayish bar along the side of the display that doesn't interfere with the functionality of the reader was ridiculous. Had it been my intention to ridicule anyone, I would have said something like, "Dow, you're dumber than a sack of sand." or maybe "Dow, you're an idiot." or possibly, "Dow, surely you've got something better to do with your time than this, you
half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder."
You can think what you like about it, but I LOVE my Forma, and it's a great improvement over my Aura HD. If anyone needs me, I'll be reading.
