Hi all, Amazon sells his Kindle now also outside of the US: http://bit.ly/IGfV9 Wolfgang
what does everyone think is the best reader for someone in the UK? i'm thinking of the Kindle DX or the Sony Reader. Can I get some thoughts please. Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Hi all,
Amazon sells his Kindle now also outside of the US: http://bit.ly/IGfV9
Wolfgang
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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.
Can I get some thoughts please.
I guess the question is whether or not you are happy with being able to order from the Amazon store alone. Here is a (i think) useful comparison chart (by iReX, a competitor): http://www.irexreader.com/pdf/IREX-comparison-readers.pdf Best wishes, Taco
I guess the question is whether or not you are happy with being able to order from the Amazon store alone. Here is a (i think) useful comparison chart (by iReX, a competitor): I saw a presentation form iRex yesterday, and got to hold a few of their projects. Pretty neat, the latest ones even have 3G connectivity (US only for now, they're working on covering Europe as well).
What's particularly cool about their readers is that they run on Linux and allow customization and installing / developing of applications. Gr. Matthijs
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.
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