e-book readers

[mgarnett]

ORIGINAL: Lützow

ORIGINAL: Zakhal

Tablet pcs last only hours on battery while e-rink readers last for weeks.

That is true, but then again a windows tablet pc will - aside of reading - allow you to watch movies, listen music, surf the web, and even play Matrix games. Try that with a Kindle.

Also tablet pcs are backlighted so your eyes get tired.

Well, for me a backlighted device is more convenient. Works even with ebooks on my iPhone in a penumbrous room, where I otherwise would need glasses in order to read a real book. No argument here from my side, but I wonder why people claim that non-backlighted devices are eye-friendly, when they're used to spend most of their time on a pc anyway. I can work and play whole day without fatigue.

Other than watch movies and play games, you can surf the web and listen to music with a Kindle.

Most people who purchase a Kindle already have a computer or laptop or DVD player, so they can already watch movies and play Matrix games on other devices. I have never and most likely will never read a book on a traditional computer/laptop/netbook. The backlighting just kills me. But I haven't put the Kindle down since I got it, I am reading more now than I ever did.

An ebook reader is a purpose built device to read books and it does that very well, comparing it to a computer is like comparing a netbook to a desktop. Why buy a netbook, I can't play my flightsims on it when I can on my desktop. A netbook is designed to be highly portable and would not be expected to to the same things as a desktop, which is the same for ebook readers.

I just don't understand why people expect ebook readers to do the same as computer systems. They are designed to do different things.

I can understand the issue with price, but like all new technologies, prices will continue to decrease. The $489 price is for the DX, the "standard" Kindle (which is also useable in Australia) is a little over $200 now I think.

[hgilmer3]

I got a Kindle.  I guess at some point I might get to the feeling I paid too much.  I got the smaller cheaper version.  It had a choice of books I found kind of hard to find in physical form like the Conan Omnibus, and other works by Robert E. Howard.  I so like the convenience.  I like to read at lunch, and as long as I remember to get it every morning and bring it with me, I'll never be out of books to read which entails going to a store or worse, going all the way to a library.

I guess this makes me somewhat lazy, but the amount of books I read makes it very convenient.  You should see all the paperbacks I have lying all over the place.

[Zakhal]

If youre planning on buying kindle2 check this out incase you missed my post earlier:

Despite its smoother design, the Kindle 2 is, some say, harder to read than the Kindle 1. “I immediately noticed that the contrast was worse on the K2 than on my K1,” a reviewer named T. Ford wrote. One Kindler, Elizabeth Glass, began an online petition, asking Amazon to fix the contrast. “Like reading a wet newspaper,” according to petition-signer Louise Potter.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker?currentPage=all#ixzz0dwzMA1Fk
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Im currently on my second book. 1100 page red storm rising is finished and it was quite fun to read.

[Hertston]

ORIGINAL: RedArgo

I do have a question though, I've noticed if I have two PDFs with different file names, but the same document title the reader sees them as the same document and won't let me have them both on the reader at the same time. For instance, the COG:EE manual and appendix have different names like COG.pdf and COG_Appendix.pdf (or something like that), but the reader says both are titled COG, so I can't have both at the same time. Is there a way, without buying Adobe Acrobat, to edit the title?

Try PDF Info

It does the trick when the .pdf info is unpassworded.

[ilovestrategy]

Any Ebook that I buy will have to have all of David Eddings books(I am a HUGE Belgariad freak) and the Lord of the Rings, the Simmirilion, and the Hobbit. And Toland's Fall of the Japanese Empire.

And why are my letters slanted all of a sudden?????? [&:]

[RedArgo]

Thanks Herston, I'll take a look at that.


The first book I bought for my e-reader was LOR. Eventually I'll get the Hobbit and I am also a Belgariad fan, so those will come eventually too. I have tried, but just can't get in to the Simmirilion.

[Hertston]

ORIGINAL: RedArgo
I have tried, but just can't get in to the Simmirilion.

Hehe.. I remember being terribly disappointed when I first read (or attempted to read) The Silmarillion, when it was first published. I was twelve or so at the time, had just read and was totally amazed and obsessed by LotR and, like many others, was desperately hoping for and expecting something similar. And it isn't of course, although I have at least completed it a couple of times since. It does get better from about halfway through!

[Lützow]

Might consider Tad Williams then. He wrote a quartered Saga which is almost as good as Lord of the Rings. German title was Drachenbeinthron Saga, no clue how it's named in English.

[Clarisse]

An e-book reader, also called an e-book device or e-reader, is a portable electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital books and periodicals.An e-book reader is similar in form to a tablet computer. A tablet computer typically has a faster screen capable of higher refresh rates which makes them more suitable for interaction. The main advantages of e-book readers are better readability of their screens especially in bright sunlight and longer battery life. This is achieved by using electronic paper technology to display content to readers.iPhone