Quote:
Originally Posted by barium
I haven't used either of the other devices, but the touchscreen seems fantastic for . . .
|
Yes all those things and more . . .
If you are mainly reading simple fiction; then your reader doesn't have to deal with much in the way of navigation; just loading and displaying your book, and giving you a simple way to change pages.
But if you are dealing with something in the least bit technical, for example a PDF document with a nice Table of Contents, an Index, and a lot of hypertext cross-linking, then it's not even close, the PRS-350/650/950 touch screen readers just blow away the Nook and Kindle.
The touch screen interface is also a lot nicer for navagating titles within the personal library of books you have loaded on the reader, especially if you have a largish number of titles on the reader at the same time.
For example I am a fan of Golden-Age SciFi and I was able to grab more than 1200 free EPUB titles in just a few hours of browsing on the public domain section of
www.feedbooks.com
I Wouldn't even want to try that many side-loaded titles on the Nook, and though the Kindle can definitely handle it, it also slows down a bit as your HOME PAGE index starts to grow to several hundred pages itself.
On my Sony, the only things I noticed with well over a thousand titles, is that it took about 2 minutes to index everything when they were first loaded, and now exiting from a book back to the home index takes about 2 extra seconds (4 seconds for 1250 titles, vs. 2 seconds for 50 titles).
Searches within the title index are still lightning quick (usually 1 or 2 seconds), and the important day to day reading operations like loading books, changing pages, and waking back up from power-save standby are still virtually instantaneous (no noticeable change at all)
If all I ever wanted from my reader was to just plod along through the latest Tom Clancy novel, then a Kindle or Nook will do a perfectly acceptable job, but for technical docs, or managing a large library, I'll take the Sony every time.