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Originally Posted by fatkinglet
I will definitely check the Sony reader at mall today, because I would need to be able to read chinese for sure either with or without 3rd party supports.
Do either of the one has a wide 3rdp software supports? And lets say If I decide on Kindle 3, should I get the wifi or wifi + 3gs? my situation is that I live in Toronto (canada), doing most reading at home, and I already have lots of books in txt and html (from online) which I won't be seeing myself buying online books.
thanks
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Kindle has an SDK for 3rd party software but except for a few games not much has materialized yet.
Sony has zero capability in that area.
Pocketbook Readers do have a few dozen apps for the platform but they're mostly "frosting"; nothing to base a buy-no buy decision off.
Do understand that eink readers are targeted devices aimed at reading; they are not computers, webpads, or PDAs. Whatever they do beyond ebook rendering (be it games, web surfing, or calculators, trainers, etc) are simply fringe benefits and usually not terribly sophisticated. The underlying tech is cellphone-derived, not PC-derived so there isn't much in the way of hardware resources to work with.
If you really want/need apps on the gadget you really need to be looking at a tablet PC, iPad (if you know the apps you need exist for it), or an Android slate (if you know the apps you need exist and can get them into the device). It probably isn't going to end well if you pick up a device that *doesn't* meet your needs out-of-box, *hoping* to "fix" it later. Especially if the "fixes" don't exist at present.
As to connectivity, unless you *know* you have a use for the 3G connectivity, you'll likely find wifi sufficient to your needs. Plus, is *is* cheaper.
As I said above: make sure the device you get has the capability to do what *you* need by *itself*.
Software like Calibre is great for support but it can't/won't give the reader capabilities it doesn't natively have. If the reader can't properly render content in a given language, converting it to a different format won't fix that deficiency.