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Originally Posted by nekokami
I don't think a reader will sell for anything close to cost unless it can accept non-DRM books/user content, but I would not be surprised if the only DRM supported on an Amazon reader is Mobi, and other formats may need to be converted to Mobi unsecured to work. (I personally would not buy it unless it can support PDF, even though I think PDF is far from ideal as an eBook format -- I have too many academic papers in PDF format that I'd want to be able to read. But not everyone is an academic.)
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The manual we lifted from the FCC site (before it was pulled -- and can now be found
here) listed a number of formats.
Assuming it's still accurate (from page 43):
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Formats natively supported are: .AZW, .PRC, .MOBI, .MP3, .AA, and .TXT.
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So no RTF, no HTML and no PDF. Presumably there will be some sort of conversion software for 'personal files.'
Since it has the same 6" screen that the Reader has, I wouldn't expect A4 PDFs to be any more pleasent on it than they are on the Sony Reader anyway.
My wife, who is also an academic (her collegues love it when I say I'm getting a 'Marital B.S. in English Literature' -- I'm planning to print my own diploma!
), says to let her know when there's an A4 e-ink device that supports markups. She likes the idea of getting papers turned in electronically, then reading, marking up, and sending them back the same way. With the bonus that she keeps a copy of the paper and her comments.
I think they'd sell extremely well, so I plug the idea whenever I can.
