I think you'll be happier with the EInk reader rather than just a very small PC. The eInk screen is much, much nicer to use.
Do look at the Bookeen CyBook as well, as that has the best Mobipocket support. But if the Sony is significantly cheaper for you, that has the same screen - you'll just need Calibre to do conversions for you. (The Sony eBook store is rarely the cheapest place to get eBooks, and also limits choice.)
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Originally Posted by seamad
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?
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