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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
Let me explain my concern for all the non-owner haters hanging out in this forum. The iPad has been out 1 week, and there are already around a half a million owners in the US. That number is not going to go down. That number is going to double, triple, and beyond over the next year. Lot's of potential Mobileread forum members will be stopping by for a look around...... Let's suppose it's you. You just got your new toy, you're excited and perhaps have a question or two. You are a newbe, and you drop into MR to check it out. You go to the forum for users of your new toy. You see your new toy called nothing special, over priced, locked down, pointless, a waste of money......etc. You see that since you purchased this device you are someone who laps up what the company puts out, a sheep, someone with no brains, stupid fanboy, foolish......etc.
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I wouldn't worry about that too much. You'll find that kind of snobbery anywhere you go on the Internet. The permissiveness of anonymity makes people posting on forums write in ways they would never dream of speaking in real life. Most folks who frequent forums and such are aware of this. If they don't like MR for that reason, they'll just move on to some other forum where they'll eventually encounter the same attitudes.
MR is certainly populated by its fair share of snobs and nonsense, but not really more than its fair share. The naysayers will naysay for a while until they get tired of that game or get totally smothered out by the increasing popularity of the iPad. In keeping with the title of this particular thread, the iPad is so many lightyears ahead of any eInk device out there that there's really not much comparison to be made. I loved my Sony 505 until the day I got the iPad. I haven't picked up the Sony since. The iPad is indeed hands down a better reader in all respects. Apple has some work to do with enhancing their ePub capabilities, but I mainly read PDF anyway, and Goodreader takes care of all my needs in that area. Yet even if Apple were to leave their ePub reader untouched, it would still beat any other eInk device out there six ways from Sunday. My Sony is going on eBay, and I'll never look back.