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Originally Posted by jocampo
I'm with Latinandgreek, a Sony because the better integration with Calibre. But they are above the 200 limit. They are too pricey for being just a simple eink reader.
Without compromising quality, Kindle 3 has most of those requirements with an awesome price. Kindle is for sure a better and more mature product than Kobo though.
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A 'mature' product with kludgey 'experimental' features that don't work very well?
Like Kindle's 'mature' MP3 player that won't even let you select the track you want to listen to as background music while reading?
Or it's poor support of sideloaded Audio books? If you load an audio book converted to a single 80 minute MP3 (which is pretty common), kindle will not only NOT save your place, it makes the process of manually trying to find where you left off listening a nightmare. For standard MP3 audio files, Kindle will only let you jump forward in 30 second jumps (and forces you to hit several keys every time you want to do that!)
So, to find your place in a long MP3 track, you need to set there hitting keys hundreds of times! (on a Sony or the original Nook, you can just drag the position bar to the correct spot in a second or two).
And the Kindles use of really lame MS DOS style ALT-KEY this, and ALT-KEY that, keyboard shortcuts makes it a 'mature' software design ONLY BY 1980's standards.
So I guess that if by 'mature' you mean 'old and feeble', I would agree with you, but if you meant 'mature' as in 'sophisticated and capable', sorry, Kindles half baked 'experimental' features alone make that an oxymoron.