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Originally Posted by Red Alert
I've got to ask you folks: How important is the ability to download a book on the fly, so to speak? Do you really find yourself needing a book so badly, that you couldn't wait until you reached your computer and internet connection to download a book?
I ask this because, in my life I'm able to plan ahead enough to download 4 or 5 books at a time and when the shelf starts to look a little bare, I download a few more. I read on a Sony PRS505 and have no built in internet and don't find it disadvantage. I do like this method because it allows me to keep a copy on my computer in addition to my eReader.
TIA.
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I gotta tell ya, there are times when it is HUGE for me!!! I spend a lot of time living/working (part time) on a mountain teaching skiing. even though our teachers lodge supposedly has internet, storms take it out a LOT! a lot of times those storms shut down the mountain, so that means I am skiing a lot more. alternately I spend a fair amount of time showing horses, and I don't have computer access there. sometimes a horse gets sick or there is hinky business in the barn and we take turns staying up watching things. a lot of reading goes on then. I know a fair amount of folks that do a lot of RVing and/or sailing, this is also a big deal for them. I'm not a soldier anymore, but having a Kindle with that ability would have made a HUGE difference in my life!
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Originally Posted by Granvillen
I could care less what the next Kindle has. I am happy with the K2i. I think the collections were an overkill. I just want to read with it.
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the lack of collections (actually folders) were a massive rallying cry almost immediately with the K1 even!