Ebook reader suggestion -- plz plz help urgentz

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Half way through Anna Karenin on the Kindle, and it's a joy to hold + read. And the (free) connectivity is fast!

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peterchen wrote:

..by killing a forest

Don’t get this one.*confused*

peterchen wrote:

Anyway, your initial reply say "you used to say" - does that mean you've changed your mind? I consider getting one for my next vacations, 'cause I started to affectionately call my backpack "the library".

No, I’m the official Kindle zealot here. If you turn of the 3G the battery lasts something like two weeks so it suitable for a camping vacations /See! A zealot! /.

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Nemanja Trifunovic

Kindle is great. There are also other good ebook readers (Sony, for instance) - just be sure to have a proper epaper screen and not LCD one (like tablets).

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peterchen

I wrote:

..by killing a forest

Well, I don't believe the eco bill adds up because of "saving a tree". Paper can be made from a a quickly renewable ressource, in a process that's mostly self-powering, not completely free of troublesome waste though, IIRC. But compared to the infrastructure required for electronic gadgets, it's probably peanuts. (Not that I want back on the trees, I have a climbing deficiency. But we hear that it's "good for the planet" because consumers want to believe that, not because it's true.) --- Well, since my vacations are behind me, and Laptop can wait until next year, the price seems right :) Do you have any experience with the PDF reader? A collegue has/had a similar device, where PDF's work badly, because of rendering the paged format on the device (For decent font size, you have to zoom in, and scroll left and right for every line).

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Andy Brummer

peterchen wrote:

A collegue has/had a similar device, where PDF's work badly, because of rendering the paged format on the device (For decent font size, you have to zoom in, and scroll left and right for every line).

I've run into that with the regular kindle. It would have worked fine if I figured out a way to remove the margins from the pdf, however the converters I found seem to try to keep every part of the formatting.

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peterchen wrote:

Well, I don't believe the eco bill adds up because of "saving a tree". Paper can be made from a a quickly renewable ressource, in a process that's mostly self-powering, not completely free of troublesome waste though, IIRC. But compared to the infrastructure required for electronic gadgets, it's probably peanuts. (Not that I want back on the trees, I have a climbing deficiency. But we hear that it's "good for the planet" because consumers want to believe that, not because it's true.)

I know that some paper factories use only softwood and plant more trees then they use for manufacturing. Additionally they only use the tip of the tree, the rest is going into furniture industry but it’s not valid in every country, look what happens with the Amazon jungle. It is all a matter of scale actually; for the last 6 mounts I’ve read some 30 books and this is a lot of paper and if you read newspapers that would be 180 newspapers for this period. Also consider that printing books and newspapers is not involving only paper but also a lot of different chemistry and the majority of your money goes to the printing, not to the author or the publisher. From the other side are the electronic readers. Yes it takes some industrial potential/already existent/ to produce one together with a little plastic, silicon/sand/ and steel all together in a price of $100, but you can use it a decade. This could be a hundreds of books and thousands of newspapers. Also you probably know that the process of producing paper includes a huge amount of water and a huge amount of energy/they practically grind the logs/. Compare this to a small electronic device.

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I bought the Boss Lady a Kindle (the BIG one!) for her birthday. Within six months, it had paid for itself with the money she saved buying books. She cruises the book market almost daily. When she sees something new, interesting, and FREE, she will download it. Lots of times there will be a price on it a few days later. Even when she buys a book at the Kindle price, it is always cheaper than the tree version. I can go online and order books I like. Then read them on my Android phone with the free Kindle app. Oh, I wouldn't worry about the screen size. I have read several books on my phone, and its screen is substantially smaller than the 6" Kindle's.

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After contemplating this for literally years I bought the Sony Touch edition 650 about a month ago and am extremely happy with it. From what I can tell it's the best one if you don't find connecting to your computer to download books onerous and want to save battery life by doing away with the wifi and appreciate things like being able to double tap on a word for an instant definition with the touch screen. The very latest E-Ink display (last couple of months, not all products have them) is miles above the older ones as you can see in this review as well. Very thorough review here: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2010/09/28/sony-prs-650-touch-edition-ebook-reader-review/[^] If only all the reviews could be this good. Sony should pay that poor woman for all the follow up questions she's patiently answered even though most are covered in the review she did itself.

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Dan Neely

CPallini wrote:

I'm worried about the relatively 'small' display (I've to say my only experience so far was with my nokia N73 display, all about scrolling...).

It's only about an inch smaller than the text area on a normal a mass market paperback although it can be closer to two if the publisher does something silly like not using any margins at all. X|

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Dan Neely

CPallini wrote:

Wow, do USDs become directly GBPs in the UK?

Yep, and is most cases USD also translates directly to Euros. Part of it is that UK/EU prices typically have a 15-20% tax added; while US prices are almost universally pre-tax; I've never seen a good explanation for the rest of it.

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