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Originally Posted by PRS-T2
Update: just so you know, I'm pretty certain I made my decision. Will order a PW2 in a couple of days. Thanks to Eschwartz for pointing me in the right direction! The developer's corner indeed is a treasure box 
One thing still irritates me. In all posts regarding battery life, people say they have to turn off the WiFi in order to have more than a week?!?
Someone please tell me this isn't true anymore 
On the Sony, the Wifi stays on all the time and the device puts it to sleep after a couple of minutes. It automatically wakes it and establishes connection whenever I hit "Wikipedia" in a book. It lasts weeks like this and I charge it every other months or less, depending on wether I use WiFi often or not.
I was thinking 3G+WiFi but when I have to turn that on and off manually all the time, it would feel like stone age to me... |
I usually just leave the WiFi on when I first need it, until I put it away. As long as the WiFi is not on overnight, no huge drain. (It will regularly poll Amazon servers for updates I guess.)
It helps that the Wikipedia popup has a button to turn on the WiFi if needed.
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Update2: I also opened an interesting thread about hardware-hacking the PW (or any frontlit reader) to colour the front light amber/orange for better night-reading. Any crazy ideas welcome 
Edit: I just figured that the hack to get rid of the margins is out of development. That's one bummer too much for me. Forced margins on a 6" display, seriously? That's too much idiocracy for me.
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JBPatch I believe can be installed on all the newer models. The individual patches are crowdsourced and if someone wants to write one...
I believe the margins one for the PW has been kept up to date. (But not the Wiki references?
) Now, I personally am out of luck with my Kindle Touch...
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I thought I had found the perfect Sony replacement. I was willing to buy that frankenreader, JB it in order to give it a slight chance of keeping up with a Sony (headstart even, since Kindle is the only one to allow for buying several dictionaries and use them as such), and tear it down to make the frontlight less unhealthy and uncomfortable for night reading. It would have been the perfect ereader for me, though not out of the box...
Can someone please build an ereader that's capable of replacing a 3,5yrs old Sony? Double the price for christ's sake, just DO it!
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Hopefully the Kindle can do it for you.
No one else is offering good competition, that's the problem.