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Originally Posted by brecklundin
hehehehe...man, that was a smack-down for sure. But a lot of what the guy did not like, had to do with the mechanics of putting books on the device. And yeah, he also hated the case, the buttons and the UI...so it has to be marginal at best. Then again it is the NYT who is in bed with Amazon...still it seemed genuine and honest, and funny as can be! 
Funniest to me was the number of button presses to change the font...unreal! |
I love Pogue's videos but I felt his review was nitpicking a bit too much. On my cybook it takes 5 button presses to change the font size and 2 to zoom in on a pdf. You would never really do this more than once in the course of reading a book or document. He presented it as if you were forced to only buy books from their store and it is not true that you can't subscribe to magazines. There's software like
Calibre that will download your magazines and format them as well as any of your documents and send them to your device for free. And what's with the Taiwan dig, the kindle is made in China.
Here's why I would get this device over the kindle
1. Smaller and lighter
2. $100 less than the kindle
3. Freedom to buy and get tons of free books and content from more than one place
4. Owning and controlling what you buy as opposed to subscribing to content