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Old 06-22-2010, 02:21 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Lucifer View Post
The Kobo comes pre-loaded with 100 books (the classics: War and Peace, Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, Tale of Two Cities, etc) and I've loaded the 11 ebooks that I purchased from Kobo, 14 pdf books, and 1 that I just took out from the library. Total space taken: 322 MB with 522MB left to go.
That's pretty cool. I played around with it a bit when I was in Indigo the other day. It took me a while to get over the fact that it's not a touchscreen (I've been spoiled by my iPod Touch). But it certainly seems worth the $150.

I looked at the app a bit on my iPod as well. It looks like books are mostly between $10 and $15 each, which seems about right. I couldn't imagine paying more than that for an ebook unless there were special circumstances (textbooks and tech manuals, for example). From what I read just now, the iBook pricing is $10 for bestsellers. But I don't think you can use iBooks outside of the OSX/iOS platforms.
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