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Originally Posted by nigeldb
...Quick question why Cybook rather than Sony for sharing? I'll take a gander at the comparison table as well.
Thanks all
Nigel
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If you've an Iliad, it reads Mobipocket books just like the Cybook. Thus, let's say you buy Mobipocket ebooks from different places, and keep them in your library on your PC in Mobipocket Reader, well, you can easily just attach both devices to the PC to sync the libraries. I am assuming you use the Mobipocket Reader desktop software, so correct me if otherwise.
Sony uses a different format of books, and different desktop software, and won't sync with Mobipocket Reader on the desktop, as far as I know. I can see both a Cybook and an Iliad being a good household mix, all syncing from the one PC, with familiar setups (both implementing that common Mobipocket function of dictionary lookup), and allowing you to buy an ebook in a single format (eg. mobipocket) without having to do any de-DRM or conversion on it.
There's a lot of assumptions I'm making in the above - it's just that, to me, there seems more commonality in the Iliad and the Cybook than the Iliad and the Sony (without diminishing the Sony - it's only in conjunction with the Iliad that I see the Cybook as being a more complementary device).
None of the above considers price.
Cheers,
Marc