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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's not an opinion. It's fact. I don't know which Reader is the best. But I do know Kindle is not it.
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Sorry, Jon, but that is your opinion and repeating it multiple times does not make it a fact. If you've read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, you may recognize this conversation between Manny and Mike;
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"Use it once, you're a wit. Use twice, you're a half wit."
"Geometrical progression?"
"Or worse."
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For me, I don't think that Kindle is the best suited to my needs. A couple of things like not being able to borrow library books and the lack of decent font controls are pretty much facts and hard to argue with. Most of the other factors in my decision are not as easy to quantify. Do I really need series and subtitles? Do I need to not have the covers for my sideloaded books to disappear? Do I want a relatively open system? Do I want to have better typography without having to convert my ebooks to KFX format? For me, the answers to all of those are yes. Other people have different needs. For them Kindle, Pocketbook, Tolino, Boox, etc. may be a better fit. Isn't it nice that we aren't all forced to read using the ereader equivalent of a Mitsubishi Mirage.