Amazon's Read Anywhere Is a Sad and Unfufilled Promise

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Amazon is supposedly the leader in ereading technology but from the Kindle devices to the web app to the desktop software, the reading experience is inconsistent and even crude. If not for the one click buy which Amazon had patented in September 1999, Amazon's apathetic attitude toward the software and user reading experience may have prevented it from coming to dominance.

Amazon wins right now because the buying and reading experience is virtually...