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Originally Posted by ht1948
Get the 505, you will not regret. Ask yourself how many times you are going to use the Kindle keyboard or use Whispernet to purchase book? I don't think the answer is many. And the easy library borrowing is a killer feature. Last but not the least, the Sony just flat out beats the Kindle 2 in the look department.
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I don't use the Whispernet to shop usually. I use it to get the rest of the book after I've read the sample chapter. That means I can read samples at my leisure and not worry about whether I have internet access to get the rest of the book when I'm done. This decreases the level of speculation in my book buying and saves me money (aside from being remarkably convenient). I've saved more than enough to make up for the price difference by NOT buying books after reading the sample. These are books I would have bought if I'd only had a couple paragraphs to read. I also use Whispernet for the occasional web or Wikipedia search. It's great for tracking down allusions made in older books and historical novels. By the way, I get plenty of books from my library. Even the Adobe books are simple to convert. It takes less than a minute. Any book they have, I can read on my Kindle.
The Sony is attractive but even though it was the only eInk game in town when I first saw it, I couldn't abide the lack of features. The fact that it had no dictionary and I couldn't search my books on it astounded me. You have computing power and documents. You should be able to harness that to do something more than just display books. The only thing it has that I'm envious of is the content organization with the "Collections" feature. Not quite my ideal. I'd rather have folders or tags you could manage without special software, but it's still an advantage.