Jason
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Re: E-book readers.. Which one?
I have a Nano 3rd Gen, bought the wife a 4G nano, but other than those two devices, we are an entirely Apple free household (with pride)
The iPhone, and iTouch do look slick, and hopefully will encourage other manufacturers to bring multi-touch tech to the masses. However, for music, there are much cheaper solutions out there with much better sound quality (to an audiophile like myself) than the apple offerings. Don't get me wrong! The nanos I've bought are clean, well thought-out, well designed, and super snazzy, in form, function, and operation. Very cool packaging as well. But, they are pricy, and apple seems to be hesitant to embrace a high quality amp in their devices relegating sound quality to the realm of mediocre. For the premium price, I would have wished the pre and final amps would be of better quality.
All that said, I have seen a plethora of apps for the iphone ranging from the bizarre to the sublime, and the kindle e-reader app was one of those.
I love books, but am seriously curious as to how well I could actually get into a book, if I was forced to read it off a 3" screen.
Great idea, maybe useful in a pinch, but for me, IMHO, being able to read e-books on an iPhone seems like a good way to damage your eyesight 
-Jason
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