View Single Post
Old 12-29-2011, 11:58 AM   #1
grimborg
Enthusiast
grimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toysgrimborg shares his or her toys
 
Posts: 41
Karma: 5514
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Device: PRS-T1
Red face good screen, good/custom fonts, just works?

Hi,

I'm on a trip and I cracked the screen of my Nook Classic (rooted) So now I'm looking for a replacement. I hope you can recommend me something because I've been looking at reviews and other posts here but I can't make up my mind.

This is my must-have list:
  • A damn good screen
  • I can use my own fonts (rooting or not, whatever is needed), or at least has damn good fonts.
  • I can just copy my epubs/whatever format and they work, and I don't need to use any special software (for example, it just mounts as mass storage). I don't use drm, so I can convert my ebooks.
  • 6".
  • Can read PDF (with and without reflow)
  • Available in Europe.

Nice-to-have things would be the ability to change the margins and landscape mode. I don't really care about touch screens.

I was looking at the BeBook Neo, but I'm not sure about the screen: I've seen horror stories about its glare and lack of contrast. I also looked at the kindles, but it's quite expensive to get them in the Netherlands, and I'm also concerned about the amount of control that Amazon wants to have over their devices (I won't buy any ebooks in Amazon). The Sony PRS-T1 doesn't seem to get much love in these forums. How about OpenInkpot? From their website I gather that is not really usable yet, or am I missing something?

Thanks a lot

Last edited by grimborg; 12-29-2011 at 12:07 PM.
grimborg is offline   Reply With Quote