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Originally Posted by geneven
I don't have a Q anything, but I do have a Kindle 2. I would say that there is only one way I know of to get a permanent Internet connection for $0 monthly cost, and that is a Kindle. If anyone knows an alternative, please let me know.
My Kindle cost me $300. For that cost, I can email anywhere a cell phone would work with Sprint, and I can read news or Twitter. I can do this for no cost except the originial $300. I think it is worth more than $300 for this one feature.
I agree that black and white is no big deal versus color -- eye strain seems to me about the same, but I have spent many, many hours on my Nokia N800 and N810 with no problems with eye strain.
I can get all the books on Project Gutenberg for free with my Kindle, and on many other sites. Can you tell me for certain that I can't convert files and get the Google book files on my Kindle? I haven't tried. I haven't noticed a fantastic selection of books in the Google book files that are not available from Project Gutenberg, can you list a few essential books that are not available from Gutenberg that ARE available from Google? Numbers of hundreds of thousands of books are somewhat worthless; you can't read numbers, only books.
I have bought some very good books from Amazon that are definitely not available from free, legitimate sites. I am reading some Harry Bosh detective novels right now, I read Four Days in November, a fabulous book about the JFK assassination, and I read some other fiction, all costing me a reasonable $9.99 each.
I am tempted to buy a Q7 myself! But I think the Kindle 2 is a very good deal. I can't speak for the DX.
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1) Not everyone lives in the U.S. where Amazon offers the free internet or even sells their kindles. Too bad we are not the settlers who went to the New World with no visas and stayed forever. Time has changed. Human genes can get patented by doctors.
2) Kindles and Sonies have their strength, like light weight, E-ink, longer battery life, but there is something personally I can't bear, especially with kindles.
-------Who developed these E-book readers and what are their primary trades of interest?
-------What titles are usually available in E-book format in their stores if they sell books?
-------Who are the target groups of consumers/readers of those titles?
-------Why is there only one embedded English dictionary in it?
I guess it is not hard to figure out these questions. I don't want to call it monopoly or cultural imperialism but it just doesn't make me feel cool to buy it. If there is no freedom not to buy an E-book reader since people have invented PDF and other E-formats and keep making them indispensable for whatever reasons, at least I need some illusion of freedom to justify my support to their businesses.
I suggest that Amazon and Sony add ads to each page of their e-books and make them "free".
