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Originally Posted by AprilHare
Let me guess - Sony isn't out to corner the book *and* ebook market either.
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I'm sure if Sony had the opportunity, they would nobly refuse. That's why they don't have their own e-book store, for example.
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Originally Posted by AprilHare
It shouldn't have happened ONCE. Can't wait for it to happen again..
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(looks puzzled) So Sony's Rootkit doesn't bother you but Amazon's 1984 is a big deal? At least everyone who lost 1984 got a refund and no hardware damage was done. How'd that work out with Rootkit?
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Originally Posted by AprilHare
Yeah, we're all sheep anyway. Why should we care where we are shepherded to when Amazon have such nice reassuring faces?
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There may be some sheep here, I suppose. However I have books from Baen, Fictionwise, Manybooks and Mobileread on my Kindle. Kindle doesn't restrict me. But I concede it might be a bad choice for you.
Sure the Amazon store is more convenient to use on Kindle. Amazon's more convenient to use on the Internet in general because they pay a lot of attention to that. The fact that their site also has the best prices (most of the time, and given that I'm in the US) is a nice bonus. But I haven't had any trouble looking around and choosing for myself where to get my books.
If you like Sony, that's okay. But the wonderfulness of your Sony would be more apparent if you spent some time telling us the good things about your Sony, rather than bad things about the Kindle that aren't even correct.
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Regarding the original post, I'd just like to say that I originally chose Kindle because 1) at the time Sony was out of the question because their store didn't work with Macs, 2) it was the only reader that would search within books, search across books, highlight and annotate (the iLiad let you mark, including handwrite, on documents, but cost twice as much, and I got the impression it couldn't search). 3) it had access to the Internet, always and for free (granted it's a slow and clunky browser and mine doesn't work outside the US but it was miles better than anything else I could afford, and I live in the US) 4) it had wireless access to the Amazon store, which had generally the best prices and the best selection (apparently not true if you are outside the US). Wireless access to manybooks and mobileread and fictionwise were happy surprises.
Drawbacks of Kindle (stuff I wish for and don't have yet)
I would love it if my Kindle could read ePub. I would love it if it could read more e-book formats and handle more kinds of DRM than just Amazon's. I would love it if it could search across pdf files (it will be able to read pdf files when my turn in the Whispernet upgrade queue comes up, or when I get impatient and download the new firmware--but Kindle 2 and DX can search within a pdf file, but can't search across pdf files, for reasons I do not understand). I *really* wish it had folders or tags for organizing content. Yes, I know calibre does something similar with the metadata, but WAAAH I want to be able to do it on the fly on my Kindle.
So there you go. Perhaps someone with a Sony will tell us the good and bad things about their Sony. Which model of Sony are you contemplating?