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Originally Posted by radleyp
My point is that this ad campaign does not resonate with readers I know, that's all. The amount of books carryable is not, in my opinion, much of a selling point. But let's just disagree on that one.
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I disagree wih you on that issue. Let's say you go on vacation for two weeks. D you want to take a stack of books with you or one nice slim reader + the charger? It's a lot more convenient to take the reader then the books. We went to Florida not long ago and I took my reader and no paper books. I was able to carry around my reader and when I finsihed a book, I was able to pick another and go right on reading. If I was carring a paper book around that was close to finishing, I'd either have to have another with me or just finish what I had and have nothing to read.
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Much to my disappointment, what I don't see is that the Sony reader has created a lot of enthusiasm for ebooks among those who have not read them before: I have read ebooks for years, but my wife and daughter, both voracious readers (they read more than I do), have no use for them. My wife hates reading on a PDA and was not impressed by the Sony. I have not experienced eye strain reading on a PDA (and I suspect I am much older than all of you), in fact I found it more difficult on a few occasions to read on a (borrowed) Sony since I couldn't get the light to shine right (often the case, of course, with an ordinary book).
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I'm 43 (44 later this month) and I find the Sony quite easy on my eyes. While I might not have an issue with a PDA screen, I prefer the eink screen. A lot of people who dislike reading on a PDA say eink is easy to read with. It's almost like comparing apples & oranges when comparing a PDA screen with an eink screen. What was it about the SOny that your wife wasn't impressed with? Yes I know you can get glare on the Sony screen, but that's not really much of an issue to me.
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Some researchers do indeed need several technical books open at a time (as I do sometimes in my law practice) but in such cases the Sony reader is of little use, since more than one book must be open at the same time (flipping back and forth is not productive). This site is a promotion for ebooks, so what you all write is no surprise, but the claims made for the Sony too often strike me as pieces in a campaign rather than reality.
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No portable reading device is going to be able to replace several open text books at the same time. It's just not feasible. And you won't be able to have then side-by-side even if you could. That's not what the Sony and other reading devices are made for. Even the iLiad which might be able to be programmed to have multiple documents open at the same time would not do. You'd have to flip screens and no way to have them shown at the same time and still be readable enough. So the thing is, don't try to make these readers do things they were never designed to do and are unable to do. Now you could do what you do with text books and have several readers side-by-side. But you cannot do that with just one reader.