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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
What an ignorant load of horse manure. The PRS 700 was a failure, to be sure, but it failed mainly due to the repeated slamming of it by people who did not want a touch screen eink reader with built in lighting. For those of us who do, the PRS 700 is an excellent reader whose screen "problems" are greatly exaggerated.
But if I received one with the "dust bunny" issue, I might feel differently.
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One reason I said I was surprised that more ebook readers didn't make the list was because while Sony's done a pretty mediocre job with their design and undermining some of their own objectives, they're far from the only company to do it. The vast majority of ebook readers are tragic failures on a design/usability level, and I'm frankly astounded that they've made it as far as they have...especially when decent concept mockups of both devices and interfaces have been around for quite a long time.
So definitely...PRS-700 isn't a uniquely bad product...I think some people were sour that they decided to compromise on an already mediocre screen when the un-compromised version was a key selling point.