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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
You can try a whole range of ereaders out in Foyles (London) and Waterstones around the corner. I remember trying the PRS-600 (£200), the 300 (£140), the Neo (£270), the Opus (£180) and the BeBook mini (£180). They didn't have the Elonex (£129) on display at the time. The 600 bothers some people but not others - it certainly seemed fine to me. The Neo was probably the best machine but it was quite expensive.
I have a Kindle (bought from the UK) and I can't say I'm unduly tied to Amazon - I use Calibre to side load books onto the device using the USB cable - just like any other ereader. Pocketbook also produce a range of devices you can order over the web.
You don't say where you live in the UK but you could try looking for people for people with ereaders in this thread who will happily demo their devices to you. |
I live in Cambridge, so it would cost me a rail ticket and most of a day out to visit Foyles, sadly.
I've decided to go with a PRS-600 from Play.com - it's 75 quid cheaper than the Bebook Neo, with free delivery too, and a cheap leather case in the July sale - it's on its way as we speak
Also, AFAIK, annotation on the Bebook is still a work-in-progress. The ability on the Touch to see a list of all your annotations looks really useful, at least for what I'll be using it for. The cheaper models without annotation are not much use to me.
As for the screen, if it is a problem, I read here that Sony's own screen protector is quite good, and of course fairly easy to obtain here in the UK.