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Originally Posted by Shadowplay
LOL yes I can definitely see how quickly I could be spending money with a Kindle - kind of a good/bad situation I guess. 
Ok here's another question to those in the know: how does the speed of the Kindle compare to the Cybook and the Sony 505?
I'm seeing that both the 505 and Gen3 are running at 200MHz, all be it different chipsets, while the Kindle is using an Intel 400Mhz critter. Should I care? Does it make any difference? |
I have all 4 of the US-sold eink devices plus the Jetbook. The Kindle is slower in opening menu items than Gen 3 or 505.
Gen 3 is great and is so amazingly thin it is almost not there....but, as you say, it is buggy. At the price Bookeen charges it should perform as flawlessly as the Iliad, Sony or Kindle....but it doesn't. If you can live with dropped bookmarks and the device not remembering your place in a book, then Gen 3 is for you.
I bought the Sony kind of on a whim. I have a lot of books in txt format and figured I could use the Sony for that, if nothing else, as I had no intention of using the Sony store (I have yet to go to the Sony store, a month after getting the 505).
But much to my delight, I found that using the Calibre program with a lit file (after removing the drm) makes a letter-perfect copy in lrf format, with all the photos, clickable TOC and everything else included, just like you bought the book from Sony itself. But your conversion is drm free, and can be used on another device in the future should your needs change.
The 505 has the best menu structure and layout of controls, matched only by the Jetbook.
Get the Sony if you don't mind doing conversions. I can buy a book from Fictionwise and have it ready to read on the Sony is less than 5 minutes.