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Originally Posted by Robertb
How the hell can you be so knowledgable and not own a device??
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I just make sh** up.
Actually, I've spent the better part of the last few years looking at stuff online regarding eink, looking at the new devices coming out, seeing what they have to offer, comparing it to what came out months before, and not really seeing much of a difference except case design, and ebook formats. Everything else seemed to stagnate since eInk's inception, at least in regards to speed and functionality.
I went to Borders a couple years ago and actually held the 500 device, flipped through some pages, looked at the menu, and walked away dejected and unwilling to part with my 350 bucks. I vowed that I would not purchase a reader until a product came out that would be faster at page turns and could read more formats than the 500 could. How could I have forseen that it would take 3 years for the pages to turn faster?!
Since Epson stepped in with a newer controller, the whole 'flash' issue will be falling to the wayside, which addresses my first issue that I had with the Sony. The ability with the EZreader to read 14 formats is excellent, and addresses the second issue.
Granted, there have been more readers between the 500 and the PocketPro, but to me it was just the same technology with new wrappers. The technoloogy itself wasn't updated. Now it has, and now I am ready to partake.
On the plus side, I have spent the last few years building up a vast library of ebooks. Granted, most of them were from the darknet, as I could only read on my laptop via word doc, txts, rtf, and pdfs. I will slowly be converting them to other formats, or replacing them with purchased, properly formatted files as time permits.
It's a good thing the PocketPro supports up to 16GB, i have almost 12G of books already. Granted most of those are dupes, as I've converted many to several formats. But still. I'll gladly spend a paycheck to have properly formatted copies of my books.