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Hey, idiots, when I say Ebook Reader I mean Ebook Reader not iPad
I don't care for Christmas, so why do I have to submit to Christmas stress?
Since syncing my PDA with Windows 7 was a regular pain in the butt for the last year, I was quite happy when someone offered to buy me a real Ebook Reader.
Unfortunatly I still life in a part of the world where dead tree books are seen as the only way too go. (of course it isn't helping that our politicans want to go back to fixed book prices, so you would have to pay the same amount for a book no matter if you get it as Hardcover, paperback of ebook. And even if you would order it by, for example, Amazon, in Germany, the UK or the US, you would have to pay the diffrence to the regular Swiss price on top of taxes - This just isn't a country for bookworms)
But back to the tale of getting an ebook reader
Store 1 (Media Markt) only had the model I wanted in pink, and when I asked if they will get others (no hurry, next year is fine!) they said it was unlikely. After all Ebooks are out, and who needs an Ebook Reader in a world where an iPad exists! He could show me one of those, and it's only double the price but tripple as stylish and trendy
Store 2 (Interdiscount) has stopped selling Ebook Readers as well, but they offered to show me the iPad, because" it is all the rage now, and can do a lot more than just show some boring books"
I decided to give up on Tech-Stores and go to the book stores to see if they still sell them.
Thalia does, but only their new own brand. Oyo may be cheap, but looking at those they had set up in the store as well as reading some customer opinions, that pretty much is a no go.
(Needs to get bank account information to even get it running, 10 seconds for a page flip, battery only lasting for about 200 pages rather than the advised 8 000)
In the end, (after 4 hours of running around) I got one from a small local store. Not the brand that I wanted (Bookeen) but a Sony 350 for about the same price I would have paid for the pink monster at Media Markt.
Since syncing my PDA with Windows 7 was a regular pain in the butt for the last year, I was quite happy when someone offered to buy me a real Ebook Reader.
Unfortunatly I still life in a part of the world where dead tree books are seen as the only way too go. (of course it isn't helping that our politicans want to go back to fixed book prices, so you would have to pay the same amount for a book no matter if you get it as Hardcover, paperback of ebook. And even if you would order it by, for example, Amazon, in Germany, the UK or the US, you would have to pay the diffrence to the regular Swiss price on top of taxes - This just isn't a country for bookworms)
But back to the tale of getting an ebook reader
Store 1 (Media Markt) only had the model I wanted in pink, and when I asked if they will get others (no hurry, next year is fine!) they said it was unlikely. After all Ebooks are out, and who needs an Ebook Reader in a world where an iPad exists! He could show me one of those, and it's only double the price but tripple as stylish and trendy
Store 2 (Interdiscount) has stopped selling Ebook Readers as well, but they offered to show me the iPad, because" it is all the rage now, and can do a lot more than just show some boring books"
I decided to give up on Tech-Stores and go to the book stores to see if they still sell them.
Thalia does, but only their new own brand. Oyo may be cheap, but looking at those they had set up in the store as well as reading some customer opinions, that pretty much is a no go.
(Needs to get bank account information to even get it running, 10 seconds for a page flip, battery only lasting for about 200 pages rather than the advised 8 000)
In the end, (after 4 hours of running around) I got one from a small local store. Not the brand that I wanted (Bookeen) but a Sony 350 for about the same price I would have paid for the pink monster at Media Markt.