Thread: Kindle 2 Price Cut to $299
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Old 07-10-2009, 09:44 AM   #58
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I won't buy another reader without e-ink. To me it is THAT good compared to LCD. So if my 505 died tomorrow I would give the $299 K2 serious consideration. If you don't need e-ink there is a cornucopia of cheap long-battery-life portable PC's that would do the job. Going LCD, at least today, would kill the product IMO.
I agree about the e-ink screen vs. the LCD. By the end of my workday, I'm tired of looking at my 3 LCD monitors and am very happy to sit in my recliner and read on the e-ink screen.

However, were my Sony 505 to die tomorrow I'd send it back to Sony (I bought the extended warranty ). If it truly died and I couldn't send it back to Sony under warranty , I still wouldn't consider a Kindle. High on my list of requirements are the number and type of formats that a device can read, and my number 1 priority is that the device be able to handle ePub, followed by various other formats. Not even on my radar screen is a locked in wireless, although I would consider wi-fi or some more open wireless capability that let me access bookstores of my choosing.
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