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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Hi Awesome Vegan!
I have the Ebookwise/Fictionwise EB-1150, and it is my baby. It's a heavier, clunkier, uglier baby, but I love it anyway. It's on sale right now for $10 off, so you can get it for $129.
I read in the dark, so the backlight was crucial to me. I also have very poor vision, and as long as I crank up the fonts to jumbo size, it is no more or less of a strain for me than any other reading medium. It also is ergonomically shaped, so it fits my hand well and so you don't notice that it weighs a pound, instead of the few ounces for the Sonys and things I saw at our Mobile Read picnic yesterday. Those Sonys are awesome!
The EB-1150 uses a touchscreen for menus and stuff, so it is very easy. You can download books in IMP format from eBookwise and here without having to change a thing. However, in order to see words more clearly, I download in PRC format and convert to IMP while selecting for the largest fonts.
It is very sturdy. I slip it into the little leatherlike envelope it came with and cram it into my purse.
If you are looking for a reading device and are considering the EB-1150, I can highly recommend it.
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I agree 98%. I don't have a purse.
I love my ebookwise device. And contrary to earlier posts, it is the cheapest option out there. Here are the pluses that come to mind:
- A 64MB card, for me, holds ~100 books.
- Battery life for me works out to 15-18 hours or so. I use it on the lowest light setting 95% of the time.
- I adjust the brightness/contrast as a)the reader warms up (LCD screens) which happens out in the sun, or after reading for a few hours.
- You can use it as an emergency flashlight by setting it to the highest brightness!
- It's easy to read for a long time - never found it strained my eyes
- I recommend the ebookwise librarian software ($15 or so from the ebookwise.com site) for converting files, and managing stuff. I don't actually ever plug my device in to the computer, though. I just pop out the memory card and copy files to it.
- The ebookwise software works well for most conversions, though I sometimes come across an html or rtf file that has right-justification turned on and have to fix it.
- You can justify it if you thought you'd buy and read ... say 25 classics that you can find on project gutenberg.
- It recharges to about 75% in an hour...enough for a few hours reading in 20 minutes or so.
- it's cheap!
- it's durable - I don't actually use my case at all, and while that's resulted in a few scratches on the screen - it's always instantly at hand
- PDF's aren't a format that does well on this (there are ways to put jpgs on it, but not great) unless you can convert them to straight text
- I can't remember if you can flip the screen - I believe you can. I use it one handed with my left hand on the page-buttons
- you only have two-text size options, and you can get caught out on conversions of files sometimes if you don't double check the font size hasn't been set artificially small etc.
- it's a reader for text books, plain and simple and rocks at that task
- ok,....stopping now, but it bugs me this isn't a better known and understood machine
shutting up now.
