A year old for $150. Pick it up next week.
Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE my Kindle 1. I love the book availability and pricing...especially since I bought a Kindle for my non-tech mom and we share our purchases.
But I like the freedom of getting books from other sources...especially the public library. I toyed with the idea of buying a Sony when Borders had them for $199...but thought it was still a lot to pay simply to avoid the extra steps to convert for my Kindle. Then with Amazon deleting unauthorized books (albeit ones they sold), I decided I didn't like the Big Brother possibility and decided a second wireless reader wouldn't be a bad idea if I could find one at a reasonable price.
Now I am reading about the Adobe SDK versus ADE stuff, worries about firmware updates on discontinued models, etc...don't understand it but hoping it doesn't affect availability of pdf and epub books for the Sony PRS-505...which was my reason for buying. Hoping that between the PRS-505 and K1, I would have the best of both worlds.
I know technology changes and there's always something better coming but hoping what I have won't soon become obsolete. I didn't need a K2 because I don't need to latest.
I wish I had my Sony now, so I didn't have so much time to go back-and-forth on my decision
And I have to tell myself buying the Sony lightwedge cover defeats the purpose of an "inexpensive" supplemental reader
Sorry for the ramble...just hope this wasn't a frivolous purchase
