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Old 07-24-2009, 01:52 PM   #10
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Thanks for the input everyone -- the decision still has not been made. The Sony reader seems so much more solid and well-made, but the kindle...
Hello wellonheels -- welcome to MobileRead. I didn't see your post until today. I own both a Kindle1 and a Sony 505 and enjoy them both, but I have to honestly say that I do more reading on the Kindle than the Sony. I would venture to say that may be more because of the price of books from Amazon compared to the price of books from Sony. I try to avoid any need to do format shifting, so for now, I just buy a given book in the least expensive format that will run on one of my two readers. But I also find the Kindle extremely comfortable to hold when reading -- maybe more so than the Sony reader.

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but the kindle... I'm really only considering it because of the wireless access. Not really for book-buying, actually, but for limited web-surfing whenever and wherever, free. Does anyone have any details on using the Kindle's wireless for other than buying a book?
The wireless feature of the Kindle is biased toward accessing the Amazon storefront. If you are going to try to use it for a web browser, you'll want to focus on simple web sites and those which have an interface designed for PDAs and other mobile devices.

I do not try to browse web sites through my Kindle. For the most part, I keep the antenna turned off unless I'm downloading samples to the Kindle. I'm very comfortable transferring books to the Kindle and Sony using the USB cable, and I almost always have my laptop -- soon to be a netbook -- with me.
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