On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:27 AM, Mohamed Bana wrote:
what does everyone think is the best reader for someone in the UK?
i'm thinking of the Kindle DX or the Sony Reader.
They're a bit different. If you need the screensize, the Kindle DX is the only real choice (and does support .pdfs) until the PRS-900 comes out (and it has a different screen proportion which IMO isn't going to be as serviceable as the Kindle DX's). I have a Sony PRS-505 which has the same size as the Sony PRS-600, and while it's workable for re-flowable text, and quite nice for text which have been especially formatted for its screen size (excellent example here: http://people.umass.edu/klement/russell-imp.html ), for any technical material w/ charts or figures which one wants to refer to along w/ the matching text, it's sub-optimal. They're both great units and the main reason I chose the PRS-505 over a 1st generation Kindle is that the latter wouldn't fit in my (rather large) shirt pockets. William (who once had shirts tailor-made w/ pockets to hold his Newton MessagePad) -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.