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seamad · 10-31-2008, 03:05 AM

Hi all,
my name is Peter, I'm Italian and I'm approaching ebooks for the first time.

In my professional life I read a lot on the screen, but it was always on a pc screen as I used to work in IT.

Now I relocated in the Mekong's delta, may be not in the middle of nowhere but surely very near to it.

Having a huge amount of books back in Italy I slowly started to bring them here, but it's a real slow process to bring books on the plane due to weight restrictions.

Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) is a 6 hours bus ride from where I live and it's the nearest place with a good choice of books.

So it's ebooks! Do I like to read on a screen? Not sure, may be because I'm forced to read on a laptop screen and my laptops (two 15.4" and one 17", I cant live without experimenting with programs, probably it comes from my working experience) aren't so mobile after all.

Anyway I installed Mobipocket Reader and started reading; not bad at all, I miss the paper sensation but I will survive; the books I brought suffer from the humidity you get here and deteriorate quickly.

But I need a device to bring around. Having surfed the net a little bit I'm almost decided for a PRS 505: the reader is a mature one, the price is the cheapest one and it offers everything I (think I) need.
The only problem is that with a hundred bucks or so more I could get an eee Pc 901 that doesn't weight too much, has a good battery life, has colors (some books do have color pictures) and does a lot more.

Is it a possibility or it's my love for computer that misleads me?

10-31-2008, 03:05 AM	#1
seamad Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: prs505, cybook Gen3 (no more), Kindle V3, Archos 7 HT	ebooks are not a choice Hi all, my name is Peter, I'm Italian and I'm approaching ebooks for the first time. In my professional life I read a lot on the screen, but it was always on a pc screen as I used to work in IT. Now I relocated in the Mekong's delta, may be not in the middle of nowhere but surely very near to it. Having a huge amount of books back in Italy I slowly started to bring them here, but it's a real slow process to bring books on the plane due to weight restrictions. Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) is a 6 hours bus ride from where I live and it's the nearest place with a good choice of books. So it's ebooks! Do I like to read on a screen? Not sure, may be because I'm forced to read on a laptop screen and my laptops (two 15.4" and one 17", I cant live without experimenting with programs, probably it comes from my working experience) aren't so mobile after all. Anyway I installed Mobipocket Reader and started reading; not bad at all, I miss the paper sensation but I will survive; the books I brought suffer from the humidity you get here and deteriorate quickly. But I need a device to bring around. Having surfed the net a little bit I'm almost decided for a PRS 505: the reader is a mature one, the price is the cheapest one and it offers everything I (think I) need. The only problem is that with a hundred bucks or so more I could get an eee Pc 901 that doesn't weight too much, has a good battery life, has colors (some books do have color pictures) and does a lot more. Is it a possibility or it's my love for computer that misleads me?