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Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers?

Posted by Soulskill on from the indispensible-or-expensive-e-paperweight dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Kindle made waves when it came out, but they've now had the chance to calm. How many of you have been using your eBook readers since you've received them? How many of you forgot you had one, and how many of you swear by your reader? I like my single-purpose (well, dual — music player) Sony Reader because I actually use it to read, rather than multitasking myself to death. Is this technology as convenient and useful as you expected?" If not, what refinements or improvements would reKindle your interest?

8 of 569 comments (clear)

  1. No by jon_cooper · · Score: 4, Funny

    No

  2. Re:Simple answer: No I have not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just like CDs, I guess. After all, I'm sure no slashdotter has an MP3 collection that is much larger than their CD collection...

  3. Re:Simple answer: No I have not by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just went to the used bookstore, enjoying the smells, the sight, and the interaction with a person who was able to tell me based on a loose idea of what I told him I liked several books I should read.

    Last used bookstore I went to the guy behind the counter hit on my girlfriend. Amazon has never done that.

  4. Re:You're Missing the Point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to bump you up to a +5 then I noticed your username. Never going to mod up anyone who has fanboy in his username. Them's the rulse. If'n it'were up to me. You'd be banned. Or rather it would be impossible to register with such a username. The attempt would install awesomeware on your computer that would forever prevent you from putting those letters together in that combination. It might also have required you to re write the linux kernel in x86 assembler as further punishment.

    as to the fact that your comment was actually intelligent and showed a higher degree of analysis than the parent, Well as they say, even broken clocks are right twice a day.

  5. Re:Hi, I'm your polar oposite. by swillden · · Score: 4, Funny

    My screens just do not have that kind of real-estate space.

    So get more screens!

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  6. Re:That's not a safe bet at all. by RealityThreek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heh. Just think, the equivalent to a library burning in the digital world is 'rm -rf *'.

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  7. Re:That's not a safe bet at all. by The_reformant · · Score: 4, Funny

    public libraries are often torched
    Wow, you live in a bad neighbourhood.
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  8. Re:How about no? by Saint+Fnordius · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pulp fiction!