Quote:
Originally Posted by pilotbob
As to portablity, I think the reader would be just as portable as a stack of A4 pages stapled together. Granted you would have to take a bit more care with it.
|
Yeah, that's my worry. It would be fragile and easier too damage (due to being bigger) when crammed in a back pack etc. For portability I mainly want a reader for books/novels that I can easily carry around--while it would be nice if it could handle A4 PDFs I wouldn't use that enough to sacrifice portability by buying an A4 sized reader.
I also think it's a ways off from having an A4 sized reader that's like a tablet PC where you can mark up things just as easily as on paper etc. And I'm mixed on how I'd like that vs. just having the paper copies as I'm a bit old fashioned with that kind of stuff. The main appeal of thinking of getting an e-reader is a seldom re-read books and it's just pointless to have hard copies around--even though I'd prefer reading the physical book. For the time being I'm just trying to use the local libraries rather than buy, but they don't have a lot of stuff that interests me.
So that's why I'm holding off for now as I'm just not big enough in to reading and the tech in general to drop $250-360 on an ereader right now--as much as my inner tech geek is tempted!