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[ratcreature]

I should not have read while walking. I stumbled over some uneven pavement and fell down. I didn't hurt myself too badly, mostly my hands, one wrist and both my knees are scaped up, but my ebook reader was destroyed. :((( Also my trousers, but I mostly feel the loss of my ereader.

I mean, I feel lucky that I didn't break my right wrist -- I awkwardly landed on that since that hand was holding the ereader and scraped its outside, but I guess the device absorbed quite a bit of force (it actually bent and partly shattered). Or damaged my new glasses which were far more expensive than my ereader.

But still. I really liked that ereader, and it wasn't that old either.

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[ratcreature]

Yeah. And now I have the hassle of deciding on a new ereader again which is as bad as the extra expense. My old model actually costs a few euro more now than a year ago when I bought mine, which seems just wrong for electronics. So I'm not thrilled about that.

But I don't want to be bound to a vendor like with kindle, so sticking with a PocketBook again would be good. The newer model from this autumn would cost about 45€ more which isn't too bad for HD display, more space and sound/audio book capability but reviews I read said its firmware was really buggy... So basically I have to make decisions about gadgets again which always sucks.

[bluemeridian]

Oh man, that is so true. On the one hand, I do like shiny tech, but on the other hand, the pre-buying research is SUCH a pain. Reviews are great, especially at pulling out the issues on things like buggy firmware, but it seems to double the headache involved until you just want to resort to random dart throws for the decision making!

[ratcreature]

Yeah, having tech is great, shopping for it not so much.