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Originally Posted by Quoth
Sony was crazy to regard their ereader as simply a way to sell books, though they were first wit eink and the Kindle was later and poorer. It was a management fail that they switched to Android (without ability to install apps, which is the ONLY point to Android) when the PRsx50 series was so good. It wasn't a bad idea to transfer their bookshop customers to Kobo, but was bad that they simply gave up consumer market and focused on the Digital Paper corporate ones which typically for Sony were crippled by having no mass storage mode, basically only worked for PDFs and via a Sony program.
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Typical Sony. Make awesome hardware, and really garbage software that tries to lock you into their ecosystem and forces you to use said garbage hardware to use their amazing hardware.
I wonder if they'll ever learn -- I just avoid Sony outright.
When shopping for my first eReader I looked for almost a year before the Kindle 3 had a huge price drop that pushed me over the edge. I went to Borders and B&N many times and looked at the Kobo devices (didn't like the baby blue button and quilted look on the back -- stupid reason, but that's what it was that stopped me), and while I really liked the Sony the software still made you realize you were using a computer, not reading a book, plus they were crazy expensive in comparison. My green backlit LED screen on my Palm III was good enough for a long time -- and I liked the auto-scroll feature on the Mobipocket app -- I could just set a reading speed and watch it scroll by, periodically adjusting as necessary w/ the front arrow buttons. Somehow even those low res LED screens were easier on they eyes than LCD and OLED screens of today
After two Kindle readers I'm very happily using a Kobo now, 100% within KOReader.