Which E-book device do you have?

[AbFabGab]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Well, I hate to say it but Sony owners could not comfortably live with their Readers without some significant help. Sony made a device that is great hardware but, at least initially, was crippled with several limitations (poor PDF support is one example). They have since fixed some of those problems. But the Kindle was released with fewer such problems and so their users had less reason to look for help from a forum like MobileRead.

another thought as to why not as many Kindlers here -
The Kindle is targeted - or marketed? - as a device
which does not need computer interaction, so
perhaps Kindlers in general are not as computer
oriented or techie as people who use other devices?

[AbFabGab]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

OH. wait. Are you talking me ME??

You are the MB's "Queen of The Polls" after all

[lilac_jive]

Weee! 400 voters!

[AbFabGab]

ok, I voted previously: "I still haven't decided, I"m so frackin' confused."
But I now have a shiny red Sony PRS 505 (Thank you, Hubby!!).
So if the mods wish, they can change it?

[JSWolf]

The Cybook was invented by the original Cylons. Not the Cylons from NuBSG.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by astra

Good, but I find it very odd. I was 100% sure Kindle would have x2 more users.

Quick joke:

What do you get with a roomful of Kindle and eBookwise devices?

Amazon Kindle          54 13.14% and
Ebookwise 1150         33  8.03% 

Total                  87

More ebook devices than:

Bookeen Cybook Gen 3   72 17.52% 

groan,

[Penforhire]

We've got two 505's so we are underepresented! And I didn't come to MobileRead because I had any trouble with admittedly crappy Sony software. I do not buy that argument at all.

However I do buy the argument that more Kindles are probably used by non-PC-literate people and so are not represented here for that reason. How many regular MobileRead members also regularly watch Oprah? I suspect the populations don't overlap much but I'm just showing my bias.

[vivaldirules]

Hey, pshwynk! I was wondering if you could tell me what ebook device you use. I can't seem to remember.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Weee! 400 voters!

Makes you want to chant:

five - er - hundred,
five - er - hundred,
five - er - hundred...

Oh, that was the other poll...

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Hey, pshwynk! I was wondering if you could tell me what ebook device you use. I can't seem to remember.

I've forgotten, too! I think we should ask Zelda to enlighten us!

[Fledchen]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Well, I hate to say it but Sony owners could not comfortably live with their Readers without some significant help. Sony made a device that is great hardware but, at least initially, was crippled with several limitations (poor PDF support is one example). They have since fixed some of those problems. But the Kindle was released with fewer such problems and so their users had less reason to look for help from a forum like MobileRead.

Count me as one of the people who didn't get full use out of the PRS-505 until finding the MobileRead wiki and forums. My experience using the 505 is much better post-Calibre and post-Book Designer than it was struggling with the Sony software. I don't think that the Sony software is terrible, it just doesn't meet my needs as well as the third-party software.

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by AbFabGab

ok, I voted previously: "I still haven't decided, I"m so frackin' confused."
But I now have a shiny red Sony PRS 505 (Thank you, Hubby!!).
So if the mods wish, they can change it?

mods? Anyone?

[Elsi]

In the absence of a Blackberry or generic cellphone option, I selected the one labelled "iphone, ipod, pda" in addition to the Sony 505 and Amazon Kindle.

I definitely read more books on the Kindle than the other two combined & tripled, but I wouldn't give either of them up. The Sony is ideal for reading in the car at night since the lovely light in the light-wedge cover doesn't bother hubby as he's driving. And I read books on my Blackberry while other folks are checking their e-mail. I put Mobipocket reader onto the Kindle especially for "stealth" reading.

[vivaldirules]

We have mods?

[koland]

Originally Posted by cassidym

desertgrandma, you should add the iPhone

and the Palm (in many different versions, several of which I have) and a generic "smart phone" (the Mogul works about as well as the iphone and I'm more likely to have it, as in 100% of the time vs. ummmmm ... almost never, as I use it for audiobooks at my desk).