Ha! Actually, I'm strongly considering getting the hubby his own Kindle for his birthday so that I can share the e-books that I buy with him. But he really likes the sleek form factor of the Reader, so I'm not sure exactly if he would eventually overlook the Kindle's bulkiness and stupid paging button placement in favor of its wireless book store and other niceties.
I guess I also have the older Reader that might be sale material... Does it matter which one? :)
I saw that they're possibly announcing a new Reader at some special event. Has the new hardware been leaked already? I haven't perused the feeds recently.
Are you guys talking about the "rumored" new Kindle? 'Cause if you are, Amazon already stated it wasn't something that was going to happen this year. I've not heard anything about a new Sony device yet (.... I'm torn.. I don't like the physical parts of the Kindle and @jezlyn can attest to my dislike for all things Sony)
I'm mainly interested because I have a large collection of technical manuals that are in PDF format that would be nice to carry around. Not all that interested in more than an occasional non-techy book (I read about 2 sci-fi and 2 self help books a year outside of computer language, science and technical manuals) And the books that I DO buy from Amazon I mainly do so because I want/need to photos/pictures (like photography books, photoshop books, etc.) so a b/w device isn't going to do me either.
@Edy: Oh, you might be talking about that 8.5"x11" e-newspaper thing from a company whose name starts with "Plastic"... Can't remember exactly at the moment. I thought you were talking about Sony's upcoming update to the Reader, implied by articles like this:
@JavaDog: if you have lots of PDFs that you want to read, the Sony Reader nor the Amazon Kindle will work for you. Neither of them have very good PDF support right now, so most converted PDFs aren't very legible, unless you split the pages in half to keep the text big enough to read. Not convenient.
You might consider the Iliad iRex. It's a lot more expensive than both Kindle and Reader, but it has a bigger screen, is more open with different formats (Linux-based OS), and has a Wacom digitizer so you can use it to mark up your documents and take notes. It won't help for books you need a color screen for, but for your technical documents/books, it should do the trick:
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Yeah, you should sell that to somebody not interested in the Kindle :)
1 year, 3 months ago by JavaDog
Ha! Actually, I'm strongly considering getting the hubby his own Kindle for his birthday so that I can share the e-books that I buy with him. But he really likes the sleek form factor of the Reader, so I'm not sure exactly if he would eventually overlook the Kindle's bulkiness and stupid paging button placement in favor of its wireless book store and other niceties.
I guess I also have the older Reader that might be sale material... Does it matter which one? :)
1 year, 3 months ago by jezlyn
Then there's that new e-reader....they just won't stop!
1 year, 3 months ago by edythemighty
I saw that they're possibly announcing a new Reader at some special event. Has the new hardware been leaked already? I haven't perused the feeds recently.
1 year, 3 months ago by jezlyn
Are you guys talking about the "rumored" new Kindle? 'Cause if you are, Amazon already stated it wasn't something that was going to happen this year. I've not heard anything about a new Sony device yet (.... I'm torn.. I don't like the physical parts of the Kindle and @jezlyn can attest to my dislike for all things Sony)
I'm mainly interested because I have a large collection of technical manuals that are in PDF format that would be nice to carry around. Not all that interested in more than an occasional non-techy book (I read about 2 sci-fi and 2 self help books a year outside of computer language, science and technical manuals) And the books that I DO buy from Amazon I mainly do so because I want/need to photos/pictures (like photography books, photoshop books, etc.) so a b/w device isn't going to do me either.
1 year, 3 months ago by JavaDog
Nah...there was some other ebook reader in the news recently
1 year, 3 months ago by edythemighty
@Edy: Oh, you might be talking about that 8.5"x11" e-newspaper thing from a company whose name starts with "Plastic"... Can't remember exactly at the moment. I thought you were talking about Sony's upcoming update to the Reader, implied by articles like this:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/09/08/sony.reader.update.teaser/
@JavaDog: if you have lots of PDFs that you want to read, the Sony Reader nor the Amazon Kindle will work for you. Neither of them have very good PDF support right now, so most converted PDFs aren't very legible, unless you split the pages in half to keep the text big enough to read. Not convenient.
You might consider the Iliad iRex. It's a lot more expensive than both Kindle and Reader, but it has a bigger screen, is more open with different formats (Linux-based OS), and has a Wacom digitizer so you can use it to mark up your documents and take notes. It won't help for books you need a color screen for, but for your technical documents/books, it should do the trick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILiad(E-bookReader)
1 year, 3 months ago by jezlyn