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By: marramgrass » Blog Archive » Sony Reader Touch.

marramgrass » Blog Archive » Sony Reader Touch. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:09:25 +0000

[...] year, I posted a bit about the attraction of ebook readers. About six weeks after that post, my birthday brought me a Sony Reader Touch. I’ve been [...]

By: I. Hardin runner

I. Hardin runner — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:06:36 +0000

I enjoy my Kindle because it is light, easy to use, and easy to carry. The only negative I have is that I cannot read in the dark. I will be purchasing the light for it. I downloaded a book in less time than it took for credit card authorization. I don’t know how I got along before. Kindle: Amazon’s 6″ Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)

By: Cousin

Cousin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36:22 +0000

So, ebook readers then?

Only a week late in responding. Timing as ever impeccable!

As you know I fetishise books. I mean REALLY. I have my careful hand splay to protect the spine when I read them. I still remember when you spilt paint on one of my Robert Asprin’s in school and were inconsolable. “It’s OK. He’ll understand.” said teacher. “No, Stephen REALLY cares about books.” replied Mark.

That being said I have also been on the ebook train since it left the station. I started on ebooks in 2000 when on my elective. There is something brilliant about having books in your pocket that no one can see, and possibly a lot of them. And it’s great for a quick read almost everywhere. I read on my HP Jornada, my Cassiopeia, my Loox, my Loox 720, my iPhone, my Sony Reader, my Sony Reader Touch… I read ebooks. And it’s a good habit to form. It’s much more convenient than carrying paperbacks, especially with the girth of some books these days. And as I moved to hardbacks, well, it’s a LOT better than that ;-)

The ebook readers are great, I prefer to get books in that format now, I can carry a stack of old favourites all the time and be able to pull them out at a moment’s notice. I can also load new stuff on, it’s a great experience. I love the Touch, it’s a nice size, and the screen’s dynamic zoom (Thanks much faster screen refresh man) is good for reading technical stuff without reflowing it into unreadability.

I tend to get books from Fictionwise, publisher stores, Waterstones, WH Smith, Powell’s, Diesel and Booksonboard.

I still buy authors I love on paper, but I buy them on ebook too, which is the ultimate folly. But Pterry deserves the double dip ;-)

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:40:54 +0000

I spotted this on Trusted Reviews – http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-devices/news/2009/09/08/Asus-Plans-Dual-Screen–Sub–100-eBook-Reader/p1

I have been researching them for Rachel’s gran as her eyesight isnt good and you can zoom in – how was the Kindle?

By: Andrew Gribben

Andrew Gribben — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:08:51 +0000

I love the real tangible feel of a book and putting in on display. This is especially true with text books but like you say, it’s been great lately buying a dev book online and a few minutes later starting work
from it. The kindle dx is great for this, but it’s not awfully portable, so for novels I would really want the smaller kindle 2, but that’s a really expensive and possibly unecessary undertaking. You see I want to be able to read my book wherever I go, even if I don’t have my man bag of gadgets. I also have the bad habit of jumping around from one book to another and I can’t carry a stack of real books, so an ebook reader is great for this, but the question is, which ebook reader suits you?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:23:12 +0000

The nice thing about the eInk is that it’s (genuinely, not just in marketing) closer to reading from paper than from a screen – albeit shiny paper.

As for getting rid of books… That doesn’t come easily to me :( But you never know. I’ll keep you in mind. It’d be a lot of paper to lug away abroad, though.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:02:54 +0000

So I love books also… and I have many floating around, mostly now living in my parents loft (which obviously they love). Every time I move, I get informed that I have to get rid of some books, so I chuck out ones I will clearly never read again (mainly the ones I bought in odd places and only because I had nothing else) but I can’t wait til I can have proper bookcases to store things.

And actually related to the content of this post – I realy dislike reading on a computer screen, it makes me eyes feel squiffy, been trying to study this way all year, horrible. But am slightly jealous that you can manage. Does this mean you’ll have many books to get rid of? Because I could take some off your hands….