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{{commenthead}}{{comment |name= Alison Layland|verb= said|comment= You asked readers' opininos about the Kindle so I'm taking my opportunity to have my two-pen'north. When I got a book reader a couple of years ago I considered all the options and finally went for the Sony Reader. Mine was the PRS-350 at the time, but I understand their models have changed. 2 years on and my trusy PRS-350 is still going strong. It doesn't have wireless connection (though I think all the new Sony models do) but I'm quite happy to download and synchronise my books by computer - in fact I feel I have more control that way. And when I got it, it was one of the first touch screen book readers (long before Kindle introduced that feature), which I love. I think Amazon has such a huge share of the book market, and with the rise in e-publishing it scares me to think that "Kindle" is becoming synonymous with "e-book reader". So why not feature some other readers - Sony, Nook, Kobo, etc. - in your reviews? I'd be happy to give a review of the Sony but as I said my model is old now and I'm not familiar with the new ones. But I don't think the factors that influenced my choice have changed - the fact that I can read a wide variety of formats (mainly ePub files, but it handles PDF, Word/rtf files and others), but also the fact that it has a touch-screen dictionary, and in fact the Sony - I think uniquely? - also has foreign language-to-English dictionaries (French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch) which are useful to me, not only for reading foreign books, but sometimes even when reading English-language ones (e.g. Spanish for Hemingway or some of the Cormac McCarthy novels). I have looked at friends' Kindles and find it easier to navigate pages and/or search for words or terms on the Sony. I also think it's easier to control your library of e-books on your computer than it is with the Kindle automated system. Please join me in my fight to stop "book reader" from being swamped by "Kindle" in the English language! In the meantime I look forawrd to browsing the reviews you have in store for us this month! Thanks and all the best,Alison}}
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