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Originally Posted by parkher
Look, the person to whom I was replying clearly has various iDevices with color already - with much better color than e-ink will ever have.
For other people - sure, you may buy Ectaco if you want and enjoy its pale barely visible colors and nicely colored out of focus pale black and white text.
But please don't make Sony to switch to color!
And when you say
"...have no interest whatsoever in coolreader even on their tablets"
that tells me that we really are from different worlds.
even on their tablets? - that is a shocking statement to me.
I would never ever consider a tablet as suitable for reading books - why would anybody need a Cool Reader on a tablet?
For Cool Reader you buy T2 and root it. That how it is done.
In my opinion, iPad is good for one thing only: as a gift.
For reading books you should use an e-ink reader
For watching movies you should use a large plasma TV. Or even larger projector for 3D.
For listening music use high quality tube amplifiers with golden wires and with tubes replaced by the pre-ww2 ones.
For computing, or even typing e-mails - use PC with a real, not virtual, high quality truly ergonomic keyboard (not some anti-ergonomic microsoft Natural but Kinesis, or Darwin, or Maltron or something like that).
I am of the same opinion about laptop or notebook computers as well.
I am yet to meet one with an ergonomic keyboard.
They are just as useless to me as iPad is.
If I have to attach an external keyboard anyway, I'd rather attach it to a full tower PC with a system of 2-3 high quality large monitors.
But for reading books you need a rooted T2 
And the question, why people need to root and not to use an e-reader right out-of-the-box - this is a question to Sony, not to me.
Yes, they should have Cool Reader pre-installed. Or an equivalent adequate software. Not the c-word they are putting in T2. |
I agree on some of your points especially the one about two different worlds.
I too prefer a real PC and have an I7 2nd gen with a 24 inch monitor and I will probably upgrade both this year this year. But I travel a lot and do not want to carry them around with me. Working in a sawmill, programming the sorters and edgers etc. without a laptop is not very convenient. And using the 20 year old sawmill computers makes me cry. Much more convenient to cart around my laptop and my keyboard/mouse. I am like you in that I like a real keyboard and mouse.
I don't care for coolreader, although I am sure there are reasons people use it other than that it is all they know how to use. I also don't care for Moon+reader or Aldiko all that much, although Aldiko seems reasonable at least.
Then again I don't use them and am probably not aware of the millions of really cool features that make them indispensable in reading books. I even manage to choke down 4-8 books a week without them, and am obviously too stupid to realize what they would do to enlighten my reading experience. Can you read faster, understand better, or do they have other invaluable properties I am unaware of? I don't annotate fiction and what little need of a dictionary I have is easy enough to satisfy with an online dictionary once or twice a year, although I can see a vastly superior dictionary would be a big bonus for some. Does Coolreader have the best dictionary ever? Why else do you consider it essential, when the rest of my world seems to struggle on without it? And yes I have tried it and was very unimpressed so I would actually like to know.
As for actually needing a rooted T2 to read books, I am pretty sure that you don't. Well maybe you do, but I don't seem to have the same problem.
Helen