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Originally Posted by etherealdust
Hi there. I've been reading through these forums for about a year or more, but haven't registered till today. I finally decided to register so I can get some input on which reader would be best for my situation.
One of the primary reasons I can't decide between these two readers is because of the lack of an external memory in the Kindle 3. Since I want to primarily use my E-Reader for reading manga, this is a big negative. On the other hand, though the PRS-650 supports external memory, I've read that it can get rather slow if you have a large library and especially if its picture heavy and located in the external memory. What are your experiences on previous Sony models for reading manga/comics while having an extensive library in the external memory?
The only main drawback I see from the PRS-650 is the price. If you include tax, the 650 is about $100 more than the kindle. With such a price difference, it makes it harder to justify buying the PRS even though it's the reader that I would prefer.
Also, what are your opinions on the build quality between the kindle and Sony readers? How well do you think they would fare in a purse, which also holds an iPod and a cellphone, without a cover?
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I read a lot of manga on my prs-505 (read One piece from the beginning until I was up to date. All ~7000 pages of it). A volume of manga converted to 800*600 16 color greyscale takes up about 25megs. You'll really struggle to fill up 4gb.
My experience on how fast it was depended on how you converted it. PDFs are by far the slowest format, taking around 3 seconds to load a page. Other formats took about a second. This will only be faster on the Kindle or the 650 given how old the tech in the 505 is.
I actually read so much manga on it that I wrote a VBA script to help with conversion because the horrible inconsistent file structures most translations are in aren't handled well by Calibre.
It simply goes through every folder in the source folder in alphabetical order, copies all the images in them to a destination folder, renumbering them so they're in sequential order.
Crude and basic but it saves a huge amount of time and headaches, handy for joining individual chapters too.