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Originally Posted by mezzanine
Since you're the one disputing the established research, the responsibility is on YOU to offer evidence contradicting the data, for the same reason the burden of proof is on those don't believe in the efficacy of vaccines (for example) to prove their case.
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Actually in this case you’re the anti vaxxer claiming there’s tons of evidence to support your claim yet providing none. Using a kernel of truth, that people are more likely to defend a purchase, to purport that ownership is always an impediment to objectively reviewing a product.
You also casually dismiss the reviewers (who you claim are the best sources) who have made claims counter to your own.
I would agree that reviewers who are just given products with no incentive or money exchanged make for the best source of information on the product. However I’d say most people on MR who buy ereaders are a very close second.
Those who don’t own the device and are only going off a data sheet are pretty much replaceable with that data sheet. It’s fine to speculate on the data sheet when the product isn’t available, but once anyone of the general public can get the device the value of information from the data sheet goes down.
To that last point the data sheet for the Sage says it only supports Kobo audiobooks but we’ve found you can load your own and have some playability. It didn’t clearly specify what formats you can note take in, specifically side loaded kepub can not be annotated with the stylus without patching. The weight is higher but it doesn’t tell you how it’ll feel in your hand.
Oh and should you want to see the reviewers you can look through the Sage Opinions thread there’s a decent amount of YouTube videos there including one 70 minute deep dive which I think is a bit excessive personally but it’s there for you if you’d like to actually inform yourself beyond a data sheet and gross speculation that an antenna is the sole culprit in the extra weight.