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Originally Posted by DrMoze
No, rolling in the '68 Valiant.  But seriously, I have a blackberry for net access like looking things up on wikipedia, reading short blog entries, etc. And it has to be charged pretty much every day. OTOH, the Reader sits around like a regular pbook, ready to read instantly, seems to never need charging, and lets me get lost in turning page after page without dealing with 'features' and excessive 'interfaces.'
I have as many gadgets/toys as the next person, but I honesty think some of them actually suffer from 'feature bloat' and ebook devices is right near the top of that list. 99% of my Reader time is spent turning pages and reading text on a comfortable display--perfect. The other <1% is spent accessing the menu to select a new book to read. What else doyou need an ebook device for?I don't see why people want web access to read short entries on a slow-to-refresh grayscale display. I'm glad Sony still makes a long-lived basic reading device.(Although it is also bringing out more feature-laden battery-hogging versions, alas.)
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freaking AWESOME!! hahahaha....And I do hear you about the need for a plain Jane basic reader. But I am not one of those sorts. I want a device that offers more than reading alone. For over 200-bones it needs more, a lot more. I am not wanting a full on tablet PC sort of reader but more along the lines of a PDA like device that works with Google Apps, has some sort of note taking beyond those horrible soft-keyboards or even slide out keyboards, a touch display and the ability to add smaller utility apps sort of like we can on our PDA's. Two reasons are, believe it or not, are I want crossword puzzle software that reads .puz (Across Lite) formate puzzles from NYT. I also want to run the shopping list app I like.
I AM buying a basic reader this winter some time but only for the 5" form factor not because I am happy with the feature set.
I want these things because I do not want to drag around a PDA, a reader and a laptop when I am on the go. But I do hear what you are saying. I think in dedicated reading devices you have a case of waaay more powerful hardware than is needed and on the other side they need more hardware to run all the vanity apps people think they want. And the last thing I want is ANOTHER media player or device...THAT is a way over valued function which is also usually beyond the hardware in the device, especially for PDA's.