Sony E-reader PRS-505/Amazon Kindle (and general e-book reader discussion)

[Kid_Eternity]

You mean like this?

How much is that thing going to cost?

 

[slainte]

hmm for pinkmonkey a good ereader which can read all formats from the usual pdf to .chm to "downloaded"books and read anything you can throw at it check out a bebook


I have one myself which is http://mybebook.com/

A good one for a right now technology for you which you can scribble on and save along with a proper A4 size page and a bit for clicking to flick to another page is the illad made by IREX

link

http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad

However, most are restricted to locked file formats so do check out fully.

I don't rate the kindle.

The Sony is locked down to certain file formats.

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[Bob_the_lost]

The sony doesn't have everything but since it's a doddle to convert books to either pdf, lit or epub it does enough. The Bebook costs around £250 and the illiad costs an amazing £400!

Right now there's two e-Readers for under £150 in highstreet shops, the PRS300 and another one that i'm not such a fan of and can't remember the name. There's nothing else in the UK that's worth spending more money on at the moment.

 

[Dillinger4]

The sony doesn't have everything but since it's a doddle to convert books to either pdf, lit or epub it does enough. The Bebook costs around £250 and the illiad costs an amazing £400!

Right now there's two e-Readers for under £150 in highstreet shops, the PRS300 and another one that i'm not such a fan of and can't remember the name. There's nothing else in the UK that's worth spending more money on at the moment.

I have the PRS300, it is pretty good.

 

[starfish]

Latest update for the Kindle 2 allows you to load pdf files without converting. Cant change font size though but can change view to landscape.

 

[slainte]

hmm I bought an ebook for 199 exactly 7 months ago. They have two out now another with a wheel for £179...so where did you get the £299 price from

 

[ChrisFilter]

The sony doesn't have everything but since it's a doddle to convert books to either pdf, lit or epub it does enough. The Bebook costs around £250 and the illiad costs an amazing £400!

Right now there's two e-Readers for under £150 in highstreet shops, the PRS300 and another one that i'm not such a fan of and can't remember the name. There's nothing else in the UK that's worth spending more money on at the moment.

Hanvon from Ebuyer is £119.99 and genuinely very good.

 

[Sunray]

Fuck, that Que ebook reader is $799 with 3G on board.

Who exactly is that marketed at? Looks nice and thin but its an irrelevance as far as I can see when you are talking fairly serious spec laptop prices for it.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

It does look very nice though. Not flexible I might add...

 

[Sunray]

That appears to be using an e-ink type display, so the plastic transistors they have spent 10 years developing seem a bit of a waste of time, I can do that with a glass substrate. Might be heavier but its going to be quite a bit cheaper.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

The plastic logic one was always going to be e-ink on a plastic substrate

 

[editor]

It seems that users of the current batch of eReaders are a very happy lot indeed - 93% declared themselves satisfied with their devices!

http://www.wirefresh.com/e-reader-users-a-very-happy-bunch-with-satisfaction-levels-hitting-93/

 

[ChrisFilter]

I like my Hanvon... I just don't get enough time to read.