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Originally Posted by mori
...it would still be nice to get some _objective_ news about it, otherwise I'll just go read some Sony propaganda
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Fair warning. <rant>
Allright, see, now
that offends me.
I was there in San Diego too, and I can tell you that to the best of my recollection, and observations, nothing Bob has said about the Reader or its function was in
any way innaccurate or slanted.
And no, I don't work for Sony either.
A little background on me -- my first major in college was journalism. A good chunk of the reason I left it was because I was sick of being around all those would be "reporters" who were
really out to be
editorialists, who couldn't give a straight statement about something they had an opinion on to save their lives.
The things he and I have said about the
experience are our opinions, clearly framed as such.
I, and I believe Bob too, have both been as straight as we knew how to be about both the good and the bad things we saw. Is it our fault that Sony seems to have gotten more right than wrong with this device? Should we make up bad stuff just to preserve an inaccurate perception of "balance?"
I refuse to do such a thing. Just like I won't make up good stuff either. Period.
I don't own an iLiad, but I have seen one of the devices, and got to spend about 30~45 minutes with it. Something I repeatedly referred to in my own write-up specifically to give a feel for how they compared.
Paul Meows now has both devices in his possesion, I hope he'll be sharing some longer-term experiences than I was able to collect. I look forward to seeing them.
I care a lot more for this community than for any product, and I feel an obligation to be as accurate and objective as I can even when I'm
trying to be persuasive -- and I'm not even an Editor like Bob is. Further, I can assure you I was
not in persuasive mode when writing up my review.
It's up to you. If you want to discount everything we say as slanted just because we found that Sony did a good job, that's your perogative. Yes a lot of that perception is unavoidably subjective, but we put a
whole lot of effort into giving you as full an account of what that perception was based on so that you could decide for
yourself if those things were important to you. We didn't just say, "oh what a wonderful product!" We told you specifically, in great detail, what we liked
and didn't like about it. If that doesn't qualify as objective, then I don't know what would.
Okay, deep breath. </rant>
@mariodrss: you mentioned that the price seeme about $50-100 too high to you ... does the $50 credit with the Connect Store offset that any in your opinion? I don't figure it ought to be worth a full $50 worth of consideration, as you'd mostly spend it on DRM'd BBeB books (unless you can use it on accessories too, hmmm), but I was curious if it made any difference to you.
You also mentioned circumventing the DRM -- you don't
have to circumvent the DRM to run your own content, just use RTF, PDF, TXT....
@pdam: I think what Bob was trying to say is that the experience of reading on the Reader is such that folks won't mind adding it to their reading tools, won't insist on always reading paper, that is.