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If you want a pair of Sony products that share a relationship like that of the Kindles, then consider the PRS-500 and PRS-505.When the 505 first came out it was only an incremental improvement over the 500. (The EPUB support came later.) |
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Better not say anything too bad about the Kindle as a certain desert Grandma will come over and stomp on you
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I perceive a slight anti-Kindle bias, which is why I'm not surprised to see lots of K2 posts; it's easier to discuss something controversial.
I don't think the anti-K bias is actually against "the Kindle"--I think the MR forums love all ebook readers. I think there's an anti-DRM bias (as in, there are those who hate it, and those who don't mind it, and no notable number of people firmly in favor of it), and a bias against single-format readers, and a bias against devices that don't deal well with PDFs. (I also think there's a slight anti-PDF bias, but we acknowledge that there's a lot of them, and there's not going to be less in the future because they're a very useful form of data containment.) But since the Kindle is (1) heavy on DRM, (2) poor with PDFs, and (3) tied to Amazon's monopolistic business practices, there are frequent anti-Kindle sentiments. Which means that, when the Kindle is Big Ebook News, everyone has something to say about it. |
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There seems to be more anti-K2 sentiment exoressed by K1 owners than by other people.
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I would disagree. Mobileread participants are very fair and knowledgeable, and recognize well the pluses and minuses of each platform. If anything, the Kindle is represented far less than its market share.
Go outside MobileRead and the dismissals of anything not Kindle reminds me of Apple fanboys dissing anything not iPod/iTunes. They like what they have and display no tolerance for others' needs. E.g., "Content is everything, and Kindle has more books to purchase. End of discussion." - What if you like Calibre's free newspapers and magazines? No, the fanboys think you should buy. - What if your public library offers free ebooks, mostly in Adobe Digital Editions? No, the fanboys think you should buy. - What if you need the best PDF rendering? No, the fanboys think you should send your PDFs to Amazon for conversion. - etc. Just like iPod fanboys who think everyone's whole audio life should be in iTunes, Kindle fanboys think everyone's whole reading life should be in the Amazon Store. |
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![]() ![]() How is it limited? I haven't found any "limitations". I can buy from other stores, download free books, and if I choose, strip drm. I can download books from my library, and read them on my Kindle without stripping drm........can you do that? |
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I can remember staying glued to the screen when the Sony 700 was launched, reading the posts here.
It doesn't feel like there is any particular device bias from Alex and the team. As for the members, well, there may be more non-Kindle-owning people here than those with Kindles - there has been some discussion on Desert Grandma's poll on which devices people have (click here to see it) as to why the Kindle tally is so low compared to, say, the Sony PRS 505. |
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My only (and I mean only) problem with the Kindle is that Kindle related posts keep popping up here on the Sony 500-505 page. There is NOT a single post on the Kindle page about any Sony products and it really makes me wonder about the motives.
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The threads mainly stay where they are created. If a thread is in the wrong place, it was likely started by a forum member, not a moderator.
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What I don't get is why is this thread in the Sony forum? And I also don't get what the K2 hating is all about. |
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