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emoorman · 08-13-2011, 01:53 PM

Pardon me for jumping in here, since I read on a phone and my PC and don't really own an ereader. I have been reading books on PDAs and phones for many years. I seem to recall I started on a Sharp PDA, then went to 3 Palms, a Palm Centro phone, a Moto Q9h Win phone and now a Moto Bravo Android phone.

I also have Kindle for PC/Android, eReader.com for PC, Nook for PC/Android, FBReader for PC/Android, KObo for PC/Android, Adobe digital Editions and Calibre.

Personally, I can't tell a whit of difference in how they all read. I'm 73 and my eyes aren't as good as when I was a "boy fighter pilot" strapped to a fast jet, but the standard font type and size is OK on all of them for me. The features all seem to be pretty much the same. I don't like pdfs very much. I have read Mobi & ePub free books from MobileRead, but normally I buy the $7-$15 books from one of the major dealers.

After trying all of them, I mainly use Kindle, but if there is something I like on B&N or Kobo, I get it. Amazon just seems, to me, to be the simplest and quickest to use.

For those who are considering a dedicated ebook reader, I would suggest trying it my way, running the software on your PC and/or phone and buying a couple of inexpensive books from each of the main distributors and see which one you prefer to deal with.

08-13-2011, 01:53 PM	#152
emoorman Obsessive Reader Posts: 74 Karma: 515292 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Shalimar, FL (in the panhandle) Device: Kindle PW, Nokia 1520	Reader software Pardon me for jumping in here, since I read on a phone and my PC and don't really own an ereader. I have been reading books on PDAs and phones for many years. I seem to recall I started on a Sharp PDA, then went to 3 Palms, a Palm Centro phone, a Moto Q9h Win phone and now a Moto Bravo Android phone. I also have Kindle for PC/Android, eReader.com for PC, Nook for PC/Android, FBReader for PC/Android, KObo for PC/Android, Adobe digital Editions and Calibre. Personally, I can't tell a whit of difference in how they all read. I'm 73 and my eyes aren't as good as when I was a "boy fighter pilot" strapped to a fast jet, but the standard font type and size is OK on all of them for me. The features all seem to be pretty much the same. I don't like pdfs very much. I have read Mobi & ePub free books from MobileRead, but normally I buy the $7-$15 books from one of the major dealers. After trying all of them, I mainly use Kindle, but if there is something I like on B&N or Kobo, I get it. Amazon just seems, to me, to be the simplest and quickest to use. For those who are considering a dedicated ebook reader, I would suggest trying it my way, running the software on your PC and/or phone and buying a couple of inexpensive books from each of the main distributors and see which one you prefer to deal with.