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Old 01-07-2010, 06:18 PM   #131
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Originally Posted by eboyhan View Post
I don't know the answers to your three specific QUE questions -- I could provide them for the KDX :-), but if I were in your shoes I would just push on in evaluating the QUE. At the end of the day the decision-maker for me was that I guessed that I could recover the KDX purchase price in about a year based on laser toner cartridge and cases of copy paper not bought. In the two months that I have had my KDX, I have certainly seen a dramatic drop in the use of my laser printers, but the surprising saving has been in the cost of general book titles. I had been accustomed to getting 35 to 40% off at Amazon.com, and now (through about 150 titles) I am getting close to 50% off.

Since your usage seems to be mostly of a business nature, I don't think the Amazon.com savings would be that compelling to you. I don't know what the availability of general titles on the Que device will be, nor do I know what the availability of periodical titles will be either. I do think that you could probably recover the price of the Que in a reasonable amount of time, however. I would advise getting the cheaper of the devices -- as I don't think the 3G network access, nor the additional memory capacity will be all that important -- as it will certainly be possible to move documents back and forth between the Que and your PC quite easily.
The Que uses Barnes and Noble for its book store. Prices appear to be the same. Currently it shows over 25000 fiction books and over 13000 non fiction books. Currently only 21 magazines and 16 newspapers are available but I expect that to increase as time goes on.

Depending on my tax refund I may get one. Hopefully we will no more about the Skiff prior to the April release. My only problem with this and any of the other devices that are out now and in the future is that my company will not allow me to connect any device that can act as a storage device to their computers. In fact just plugging in a USB storage device sets of alarms and whistles and the computer will get kicked of the network. So if I want to load any professional documents I would have to do it from home.
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