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Originally Posted by luvshihtzu
From everything I have read, the Sony has a high learning curve also. I had checked into the Sony 300 and it wasn't any better than the Astak. They showed the Astak and Sony side-by-side and page turns were slower on the Sony. Too few formats on the Sony. Maybe you have just become used to the Sony's little glitches. I'll give the Astak a few more days and if I can't use it easily, it will go back. My husband plans to try the reader today after I got the Astak running the James Patterson/Step on a Crack ebook. The Astak Text To Speech is really bad. Kindle TTS is certainly not perfect, but better.
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No. Certainly the Astak supports more formats, but the UI is 1000% better and very similar to the Kindle so I'm not sure why you say that. My grandmother (were she still alive) could pick up either the Kindle or the Sony and be able to read books - not necessarily true of the Astak. There are WAY more glitches and issues with the Astak --I returned my first one because of that stuff -- the menu fonts are way too small, the buttons sometimes don't work and you have to press twice. It always comes up on the SD card when you power it up instead of where you were. If you can run the MP3 player without the manual then your a better man than me. (I know, I know you're a woman). The one thing that is better on the Astak is the Recent files selection ... but again it is for the SD (or the internal) and does not apply across the board. I thought the TTS was/is equivalent to the Kindle but I've not compared them extensively. I do like that the Kindle has built in speakers. Folders is a good feature on the Astak which is not on either of the Sony or the Kindle. If you use a dictionary or annotations then that throws out the 300 and the astak ...
of course as always YMMV.
