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I haven't had extensive experience with e-readers, no more than seeing them in the stores, so take me with a huge grain of salt: What's so dumb about Sony becau
by nihilocrat 17y ago
I haven't had extensive experience with e-readers, no more than seeing them in the stores, so take me with a huge grain of salt: What's so dumb about Sony because they want to give you an e-reader and just an e-reader?
I want a device that I can load whatever text / PDFs / etc. I want into it for convenient reading later. I don't want 3G. I don't want DRM. I don't want a device that is constantly begging me to open my wallet. I just want... an e-reader.
Also, the page is a useful interface tool. The size of a page in a traditional book is limited by its physical characteristics, but segmentation of the data makes the experience much more comfortable. I notice this whenever I read a wall of text on the web versus reading pages in a print publication.
- sjs382 17y ago> What's so dumb about Sony because they want to give you an e-reader and just an e-reader? The fact that it doesn't have the content that most of us want to read.
- angstrom 17y agoAnd hardware quickly becomes a commodity.
- nihilocrat 17y agoSo we can get the content we want to read ourselves. Sony just gives us a convenient way to read it, content is not part of their domain. We see the same thing with CD players, MP3 players, computers, and practically everything that doesn't have a storefront that wants us to buy overpriced vendor-locked garbage (i.e. cell phones). How is this bad?
- sjs382 17y agoCan you get the content you want to be readable on the Sony? I can't. "Freedom" is nice, but I'll often choose practical over free.