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The Kindle allows easy wireless delivery of daily newspapers through EVDO.
The Sony Reader cannot deliver newspapers daily; does not have wireless.
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Validity:
87%
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The Sony Reader is smaller. It measures 6.9" x 4.9" x 0.5"
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Validity:
84%
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The Sony Reader has a slot for memory sticks and SD cards.
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Validity:
84%
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Kindle allows searching of all on-board ebooks, magazines, personal documents and rss feeds
Sony Reader does not offer any on-board search capability.
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Validity:
84%
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The Kindle's battery is user-replaceable.
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Validity:
81%
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The Kindle includes a text friendly web browser.
The Sony Reader does not contain any way to connect to the web
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Validity:
81%
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The Amazon Kindle's battery lasts for 48 hours with the wireless on and 1 week with the wireless off.
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The Sony Reader has a battery life up to 7,500 page turns or 3 weeks.
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Validity:
81%
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The Kindle's screen supports 4 shades of gray.
The Sony Reader's screen supports 4 or 8 shades, depending on the model.
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Validity:
81%
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RSS feeds and blogs are free if you want to use the built-in browser and go to them manually.
The Sony Reader does not have a browser or wireless or keyboard so you cannot access the web.
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Validity:
80%
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The Kindle has internet access with a built-in browser on the Experimental home screen.
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The Sony Reader doesn't have any wireless capabilities, let alone a web browser.
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Validity:
80%
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The Amazon library contains over 88,000 titles.
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The Sony library contains about 20,000 titles.
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Validity:
79%
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Validity:
77%
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Validity:
77%
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Validity:
77%
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The Kindle provides a very easy user interface in terms of ordering books, just like the Amazon site.
Sony Connect is not known for being easy to navigate or to use.
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Validity:
76%
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The Amazon Kindle supports loading books wirelessly or by buying them over the web and loading them via USB.
Sony only supports loading content over USB.
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Validity:
76%
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Validity:
76%
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Validity:
72%
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The Kindle is not tied to a computer.
The Sony Connect software doesn't work with Apple/Macs.
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Validity:
68%
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The Kindle does not natively support PDF, though Amazon does provide a free conversion tool.
The Sony Reader technically supports PDF, though it cannot pan and zoom larger documents.
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Validity:
66%
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The Amazon Kindle does not read PDFs, the most popular document format.
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Validity:
61%
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Amazon has numerous magazines and newspapers easily available for daily auto downloading.
No magazines or newspapers available for push-out to the device on a daily basis.
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Validity:
60%
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It costs 10 cents each time you upload your personal documents to the Amazon Kindle.
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It's free to upload your personal documents to the Sony Reader.
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Validity:
60%
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As a content provider Amazon should excel in expanding the number of titles available to the Kindle.
Sony is a hardware company, not a content company and therefore usability of the device may suffer.
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Validity:
60%
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Sony claims to offer free books, but in these are all public domain and available for free anyways.
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Validity:
57%
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With the Amazon Kindle, you can get personal documents converted for free and upload them through a computer.
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Validity:
56%
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The Amazon Kindle has a built in speaker as well as a headphone jack.
The Sony Reader has a headphone jack but no built-in speaker.
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Validity:
54%
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It will in all likelihood be impossible to use the Amazon Kindle's Book Store and connectivity features outside the US.
With the Sony Reader, content is available from any computer in the world.
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Validity:
51%
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Mission: Kindle is a delivery device for Amazon failing to sell books online.
Mission: Sony is (was) a first of a kind device that was all about new screen.
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Validity:
36%
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For $100 extra, the Kindle gives you wireless connectivity for downloading books and browsing the web.
The Sony Reader works great as a reader, but that is all that it is. PDF support is its only advantage.
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Validity:
33%
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Outside the US, EVDO is useless. Nothing is free.
With Kindle, you always have Amazon's hand in your pocket. With Sony you have more free options.
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Validity:
31%
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Kindle does NOT have internet access, it connects only to "Whispernet" only for paid content.
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Internet content can be downloaded to Sony Reader for free.
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Validity:
29%
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The Amazon Kindle is black and white so it's quite useless for magazines or illustrated books.
The Sony Reader is also black and white but since you can't read magazines anyway, it doesn't matter.
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Validity:
7%
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Validity:
85%
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pending review
The Kindle does not support free uploading of either Word docs or PDF docs
The Sony Reader also allows uploads of Word documents, not just PDF. Still free in either case.
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Validity:
22%
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