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Originally Posted by Fugubot
I don't see the need to divide users into camps of "optimists" and critics. Criticism is not a test of allegiance and almost everyone here has already bought into Sony's hardware-software ecosystem - flaws and all.
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I'd say that the main "camps" one finds on this forum are those who want to use the Reader primarily as a means of reading the "latest and greatest" in commercial eBooks vs those who want it as a device for reading their own content.
Those of us for whom the Reader is merely the latest in a long line of "reading machines" starting from the earliest hand-held devices (Pocket PC or Palm machines, or even earlier) on which we read our own stuff (eg PG books) probably aren't really too bothered about how good the Connect Store is or what the range of commercial eBooks is, because we tend not to buy them.
Those who are coming to the Reader as their first experience of e-Books, from reading "dead tree" books, probably have as their primary concern the availability of the type of books they'd probably be buying from book shops.