Hi,
thanks for the many counter perspectives!
Please take note that most of the points are my personal views,and may not reflect yours.
About the battery on the Iliad, this is indeed bad; very bad even... 15 hours is very little compared to the other devices out there!
And I wonder why the battery life is so different compared to the rest...(I had overlooked that one)
So, If I'd disable the wifi, would I still get the same results?
I was looking into the Iliad, and upto now haven't found anything about the refresh rate when using the pen stylus. So that might be another drawback...
If so,I'd probably want a book edition instead.
I liked the Iliad because you have the option to draw on it (touchscreen), and it has a side-bar that I find very natural for swapping pages.
I also like to read .pdf files with mainly text, now and then a small picture.
I've compared the resolution with my laptop, and I can read most of my A4 pdf's quite fine in 1024x768 resolution.
For me personally 3G won't do the trick. I mean, there's not much I can do with that, and most of the time I'll probably be browsing the internet from home anyways,uploading books from my laptop (since I always want to keep a backup of my files, I'd prefer them to pass my laptop). If I ever go on a journey, I'll pre-load some books I have, just like you would do when you go traveling (take a few books with you).
Usually I'm not longer than 24 hours away from an internet connection, and since I can't go on skype,forums etc.. with it (what I much more comfortably can do with my laptop), I'd rather pay less for a device that can do less things I don't need anyways..
Besides,devices like the kindle and Sony's reader kind of already make me not want to buy them because they want to stay within their own circle. Buy books from sony, buy batteries from sony,etc... I dislike those closed circle enviroments...
But I'm glad you tell me that via conversion there are possibilities to playback other fileformats through the reader!
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
You didn't list the Bookeen CyBook... which many people here have. It is OEMed by Newtronics however has Bookeen written firmware.
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So, it's a bit confusing.. the Bookeen Cybook is not connected to the Netronics EB600 ??
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Originally Posted by wallcraft
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Note that some Kindle ebooks are in the TOPAZ format which has not been cracked.
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I on the majority will read my own downloaded (unencoded) .pdf files,and if possible html or doc files.
I have various of free books available from a site that uploaded .pdf files that no longer is... The .pdf files are legal, and most of the books are over 25 years old; but still a valuable resource.
I also have books from the gutenberg website.
On a very rare occasion I will want to download a new book; mainly science, bio or something like that.
I also wished to create my own e-books. I have plenty of books at home,and a program that automatically converts scans into .pdf.
I know it's a lot of work, but I feel happy with that!
I'm the type of person that has little money and lots of time,if you know what I mean. However cracking drm I am not planning on doing.
Dalede:
- Thanks for noting about the landscape!
- 6" has been corrected;I forgot to add it.
900:
- Probably that's why some website mentioned about the EZ900 being released around may 2009. The EB900 can be scrapped from the matrix then...
All above updates and corrections have pointed out that right now the Sony PSR-505 will be most interesting for me. the cybook is a tad more expensive,and at this moment I see little improvement of the cybook over the Sony PSR-505.
I can get the Sony 505 for $275, while the cybooks starts from 300.
Anyone have any ideas when the next device will come out ? (plastic Logics excluded, which will be released somewhere in 2009)?