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Originally Posted by NatCh
I wouldn't go that far. You might make a good case that the Sony is better for just reading straight text, but it can't take notes, has a smaller screen, etc.
They're not really directly competing products as I see it.  |
No you are right they arn't. And I would have purchased the iLiad for the biggerscreen and notes if everything else was equal. but the facts are that everything else is _not_ equal. And at the moment (and for the foreseeable future if they are as slow to implement new applications as they have been about fixing the ones they do have) we have a device that reads 3 formats. (html/xml, txt and df)
pdf is currently only partially implemented. Rotate and zoom being missing at the minute.
html/xml works
txt is almost unusable due to problems with linewrapping.
Frankly for
my needs, as of this second, it works fine. BUT One reason I brought it was that I intend to take a few courses this year (japanese for one) and the idea was this would be my notebook and maybe even the textbook. While it has that functionality I would currently be better off with my 5/6 year old Vadem (now Pinax) Clio subnotebook than my iLad.