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Originally Posted by echoleaf
Average book prices: - Kindle 9.85
- Mobipocket 12.67
- PDF 13.33
My conclusions: - Kindle's availability advantage is not huge
- Kindle's price advantage is there, but it's also not that big
- Getting a reader than can handle Mobi & PDF seems like the wisest idea
- Some publishers are offering good prices on ebooks, and that is more likely to grow than shrink
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Do you plan to buy many books? If you're reading a lot of PD stuff our you have a decent library program then a few dollars a book doesn't add up to much over the life of the device. I bought 80 books in my first year of having a Kindle. If I had spent $3 more on each one, that would have eclipsed the price difference of the devices twice over in just the first year of use. (I believe the free sample chapters have saved me even more but you wouldn't be able to take advantage of them. They're only delivered via wireless.)
Now I do wish my Kindle was better at displaying PDFs but the ones that are largely text convert quite well with Calibre and the ones that aren't don't tend to be terribly readable on a 6" screen. I've resigned myself to the idea of getting a second device for my work reading but the Kindle handles my converted library PDFs just fine.