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Originally Posted by confounded
Well now I am totally confused. I am looking for the best ebook reader and so far have been told that: 1/ The Kindle doesn't work in Australia and 2/- that Sony does not offer warranties with their ebooks. Has anyone got anything positive to say out there, or maybe I'm in the wrong area????  |
Whether Kindle works in Australia, easily can be checked on the US Kindle website. Go for the Kindle "international" and then check out Australia.
But even if the international version wouldn't be available for Australia, you still can use both versions (international and US) in every country. You only can't download via Whispernet then. But you always can sideload via USB and purchase via PC.
Concerning Sony's warranty: That's plain and simple wrong. Of course each manufacturer
HAS to give warranty. Especially a brand like Sony. I guess, the ones who told you that meant: If you order Sony reader (or most of the other brands) outside of your home country (I've bough about half of my readers in US), you only have warranty in the country of origin. You have to send them back in case of warranty. That's annoying of course. But understandable, given that each country has its own profit centre (Sony US made the revenue for the reader, so they have to bare any costs for warranty as well). Usually, that's no biggy. Either a reader is faulty from the very beginning, or most likely it will "survive" the typical lifetime of 2 or 3 years without any failures.