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Originally Posted by Sirtel
That's actually true, unless you know exactly how much is too much for you. For example, I know that over 250g might be too heavy and over 300g is certainly too heavy for me. But anything less than 300g depends on personal experience. i.e. how it feels in my hand.
As to subjectivity, all humans are subjective on all subjects. Else we would be robots. That doesn't lessen the value of learning about other people's experiences and considering how much of that is applicable to you personally.
And I haven't noticed much purchase justifying going on here on MR. Many members talk about various faults of their purchased devices and even return them. When someone is content with their purchase and mentions good things about it, that doesn't necessarily mean they justify and rationalize. What, no one can ever be satisfied with their purchase without rationalizing?
As to the independent reviewers you praise, I've noticed they tend to be much less critical of the devices they review than MR posters who buy them.
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There's a lot of self-justification and ego validation on any social media forum devoted to consumer products. I don't follow this forum outside of product releases I'm interested in, but I've observed posters be accused of having an irritational pro-Kobo bias (JSWolf) and an anti-Kobo bias (koboy).
I don't assume people aren't capable of being honest in their feedback about a product they own, unless they start to use flawed reasoning when dismissing criticism, like in the case of the Sage's weight. Note that I didn't suggest that dismissing the Sage's weight is flawed, but the reasoning used to do it.
Using your reasoning for pure subjectivity, I could suggest that the speed of the first generation kindle is similar to the speed of the new Paperwhite because I don't subjectively notice much difference in the way I use the device, despite the objectively measurable difference in the speed of the CPU used. Does it make sense why that could be misleading to someone trying to make a purchasing decision by reading what the "experts" think on a forum?
You can usually get a sense of whether someone is operating within their ego when they become defensive and emotional when their reasoning is challenged and avoid actually addressing the substance of the criticism with reasoning and logic.