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halljames · 02-16-2011, 10:27 AM

Just wanted to say my piece now that I have moved to the land of Kindle.

I previously had a SONY PRS-500, then a 505, then a 300. I currenty have an iPad that I was using for reading, but was always wary of getting it out on the metro train, so I found I was not reading much.

Due to the relatively cheap price of the Kindle 3, and how nice it looked, and based on the few I had seen in use on the train, I just bought one.

I have to say, I love it. The screen is sooo crisp and clear, the speed is brilliant and it works really well.

My only gripe is the handling of collections, or lack of. It does allow you to create collections, but you can;t order them in the way I want. Calibre works well with it, and I have converted all my epubs to mobi format which is nice.

Another nice feature is that my calibre library exported out using calibre2opds is on dropbox, and I can browse it with the kindles web browser and the books can be downloaded direct to my kindle from it.

Very happy.

02-16-2011, 10:27 AM	#1
halljames Zealot Posts: 116 Karma: 463 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Newcastle, UK Device: Apple iPad	Former SONY boy moves to Kindle Just wanted to say my piece now that I have moved to the land of Kindle. I previously had a SONY PRS-500, then a 505, then a 300. I currenty have an iPad that I was using for reading, but was always wary of getting it out on the metro train, so I found I was not reading much. Due to the relatively cheap price of the Kindle 3, and how nice it looked, and based on the few I had seen in use on the train, I just bought one. I have to say, I love it. The screen is sooo crisp and clear, the speed is brilliant and it works really well. My only gripe is the handling of collections, or lack of. It does allow you to create collections, but you can;t order them in the way I want. Calibre works well with it, and I have converted all my epubs to mobi format which is nice. Another nice feature is that my calibre library exported out using calibre2opds is on dropbox, and I can browse it with the kindles web browser and the books can be downloaded direct to my kindle from it. Very happy.