(Explanation below, QA up here)
I read lots of scanned PDFs....Space Holder
I read lots of text PDFs....Space Holder
I read mainly classic literature...Space Holder
I read mainly best-sellers...Space Holder
I just want to read books, I don't want to deal with all this converting crap...Space Holder
I read mainly non-fiction...If you're reading current non-fiction, the biggest is the Amazon store, followed by the Sony store. Not many other ebook stores have a significant non-fiction section compared to these two, and the prices are often much higher.
I want to save money on books....Space Holder
I read lots of Comics and Manga...Space Holder
I want to be able to listen to music or audiobooks...Space Holder
I read mainly academic papers and journal articles...Space Holder
I want to read newspapers, blogs, or magazines...Space Holder
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In hopes of helping out people who come here asking the same things over and over again, perhaps we can get a list of the 'facts' regarding the various reading devices put together. That is to say - leaving out our personal biases as much as possible (you know you have them!
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Essentially, I'll just keep editing this document with what you people correct and then we can put it on the Wiki, too. (I can do that, right? Edit after a long time?) I'm starting here because most people start here rather than the Wiki.
Now, I know we have this:
E-Book Reader Matrix
And I think it does a most of what is needed. But it doesn't handle the more.. well, a lot of the questions we actually get that are still 'facts' but not so much technical data. It's about "I read
X, which one should I buy?" The technical details make up a lot of those replies, but you have to know a certain amount to make sense of that.
Ideally, I'd like to see relevant info for any device that is relevant to the question, and trying to keep it as simple as possible. E-book readers that have similar compatibilities and functionality shouldn't be all listed out separately, for instance - unless they differ on that particular point in a substantial way.
So the only one I actually filled in so far was non-fiction (because this is what I have the most experience with) and I put the following:
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I read mainly non-fiction... If you're reading current non-fiction, the biggest is the Amazon store, followed by the Sony store. Not many other ebook stores have a significant non-fiction section compared to these two, and the prices are often much higher when they do have the material.
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There's probably a much better answer than that, but hopefully you get what I'm saying in terms of pragmatic responses. But if there is another option (in particular for non-US people) we'd want to explain that option as well - "but if that is not an option, the "X" store is your best bet" with whatever store that is.
Ultimately, I want this to be something useful and not be an extended fight over whose e-reader has the biggest.. uh... pixels. So we have to think away from just our own uses "I can use mine just fine for X" when you may be using it in a very unorthodox way or in a way that is not at all representative of what most would use it for.
What do you think? And if you like it, let's start getting these answers flushed out! I've been up all night, so I'm not even going to TRY!