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Originally Posted by Gideon
He was addressing the Cool-er AGAINST the Kindle, not against "every ebook reader ever." The kindle, because of people's public awareness and its popularity, have become the yardstick. Maybe it stinks, but it's the case. It's like every phone being compared to the iPhone now.
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Right but there is a difference between using a product as a "yardstick" and using a "beatingstick". Aside from the button and menu, All of his criticism against the Cool-er were features that where unique to the Amazon device, wispernet, wispernet store, blogs, newspaper subscription, and TTS. When he covers PDF he uses a brochure looking PDF and pretty much downplays PDF support. YOU got to be kidding!
Getting to the point replace the Cooler any other eBook Reader and most of his criticism apply.
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Originally Posted by Gideon
I like it when journalists do a thourough job as well, and the Harry Potter thing annoyed me too, but I also believe reviewers don't have to get into the minutia of a subject.
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There is an old golf saying "Most games are lost before the first swing*". The subtle point I was trying to make was this review was heavily biased to the Kindle features. My take is review hand not intent to being fair, the review was it was an intentional slam, his PDF choice was designed to reduce the PDF support and his book search was designed to make the bookstore look bad(don't tell me he didn't run the same search on the kindle)
He omitted other importing features, removable storage, removable batter, batter life.
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Originally Posted by Gideon
Personally, I was thrilled he mentioned the DRM stuff with the kindle. Half the time you see an article about it (like the 9.99 article) no one mentions the straps these things put you in.
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Another example of how this guy did a bad job. DRM also exist on the Cooler yet he makes it seem like it does not.
*Golf Handicaps often favor an opponents strength making it difficult or impossible for the other to win.