Hi guys and gals,
I've been making some small expeditions into looking at what kind of an eReader would I want to have. I read a lot, thousands of pages per year and a lot of graphic novels as well.
We're moving soon, and looking at the shelfspace I would need to buy in order to keep my hobby feasible, we're talking about 15-20 meters of shelfspace so it's starting to be obvious that I either shed out some of my books through bookmooch (or such) before I get any new ones, or I freeze my collection and turn digital.
I already committed to iPad since I feel it'll be perfect for graphic novels. Mind you, I will miss the tactile feel of the pages and will probably buy physical books every now and then, but ebooks are the future.
The bigger problem I have is with what I will read the regular books with. I've compared an iPad and an Kindle and I can clearly see what the yahoo about eInk is about - it's a glorious thing to look at and read.
I order a lot of stuff from Amazon, so Kindle would be a no brainer, but also due to that I've noticed that my mother language is actually starting to suffer since I read so much in english. So I wouldn't want to commit into being a 100% Amazon customer and would like to have the possibility of reading epubs and other open file formats as well, since that is what the bookstores in my country will support at some point.
Also, I foresee that I will be having a pretty big load of books in the eReader, so my question is:
If you'd need an eBook reader that supports multiple formats, has a nice tactile interface to use it (I loved the Kindle's prev/next buttons since they are so big you don't really think about it when you turn pages) and allows for some fast and easy way to organize your books, what would you get?
I looked at Bebook Neo for a while, but coming off the forums I got the feeling that the manufacturer doesn't necessarily support it as much as it should and there were also all kinds of nasty errors being reported (connecting, screen response etc).
Overall, I feel a bit weird that Kindle is always ranked as the top ebook reader while it restricts you heavily in terms of where you get your books from. So could you say that Kindle is pretty US/UK-biased as a device?
Sorry for a long post and
