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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
...we're talking about a device that is actually practical to read all these great works of literature on (well, unfortunately just the English ones for now, I guess).
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think that the french & spanish (etc.) texts that use the same basic character sets probably work okay -- I just checked a Spanish one, and it's fine, anyway.
It's the languages with the totally different char sets (russian, arabic, etc.) that it can't handle. That's some (small) help, anyway.
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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
Just imagine if everyone walking into a Borders thought of it as a device that could read Connect store books and for free the gigantic Gutenberg free library of classic works, plus other CCEL Christian books and Baen books, etc. all for free. All of a sudden $350 and a $50 credit doesn't sound very bad at all!
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While we were out there, I suggested to several of the Sony folks they put a sticker on the box saying that free books were available at gutenberg.org, manybooks.net, etc. They seemed thoughtful about it, though not instantly enthusiastic.
At that point the packaging was probably already set in stone, anyway.