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Originally Posted by pilotbob

I was reading an article on PC Week's website about the Kindle development quote and right at the beginning of the article we find:

"The success of the Amazon Kindle has legitimized the concept of an electronic book-reading gadget and led to an explosion of competing devices like the Barnes and Noble Nook, and the Sony Reader."

I'm sorry, but the Sony Reader came out will before the Kindle. After reading a sentence like this I have to question anything else said in the article.

Does anyone fact check this stuff any more?

BTW: Here is the link to the article: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...n_gadgets.html

BOb

It does begin to grate on one's last nerve doesn't it? Yeah, I have now owned three Kindles but they are far from great. And they are far, in fact extremely far from the original ereading devices and certainly not the first to use eink.

Ultimately we have to wonder what each author's individual as well as their employer's stock portfolio looks like. There are either no or 2-3 Woodward & Bernstein or even Ralph Nader sorts anymore. We certainly never see the Ralph Nader sort of consumer advocates because unless one gushes over the products from the big-boys the advert income drops overnight, from a single bad review of a product.

Sorry, I think today's BS US Supreme Court decision has me "spring loaded to the pissed off position" WRT anything associated with pandering to big corporate interests.

So, perhaps my own opinion here is not very neutral...but I am just ired of the whole "eink will save the children, cure cancer, feed and clothe the globe as well as cure AIDS..." fashion in which it is presented. And talking as if the Kindle, and to a lesser extent the Sony devices are the end all of products only makes our options as consumers worse.

Right now as far as I am concerned they can all just...oh, I better not write that part...maybe Linda Lovelace can log in and mention it in deeper detail!!??

Great take on it all BOb...