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Teyrnon · 06-26-2009, 06:11 PM

I'm trying to decide whether to make the investment or not. I like reading and have a large collection of books. I read about five to eight books a month. In my younger days I read that many in a week. Lately though I'm shelf space is becoming a serious issue. I also seem to be developing my mother's allergies to paper in the last few months. Not sure what's up with that. I've cut back on getting new books this year and haven't been reading but maybe one book a month. I'm leaning towards getting an ebook reader.

The devices I've looked at are the jetBook, the Sony PRS-505, and the Kindle DX. The jetBook was attractive in terms of price, $199 at Newegg, and offers supports for a goodly range of formats, which would be great for the wealth of classics available in nonDRM formats. The Sony & Kindle are both interesting in the availability of new titles. I've been looking over Amazon at the books available for the Kindle and they seem to have most of the books I'm interested in reading for the next year. I have a large collection of pdfs so the Kindle DX has a certain appeal with its large screen.

At this point in my life $300-$500 is a lot of money.

06-26-2009, 06:11 PM	#1
Teyrnon Groupie Posts: 190 Karma: 384 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South Eastern United States Device: jetBook, Kindle DX, Kindle 3, Kindle Fire, Nook Simple Touch	Trying to decide, I'm trying to decide whether to make the investment or not. I like reading and have a large collection of books. I read about five to eight books a month. In my younger days I read that many in a week. Lately though I'm shelf space is becoming a serious issue. I also seem to be developing my mother's allergies to paper in the last few months. Not sure what's up with that. I've cut back on getting new books this year and haven't been reading but maybe one book a month. I'm leaning towards getting an ebook reader. The devices I've looked at are the jetBook, the Sony PRS-505, and the Kindle DX. The jetBook was attractive in terms of price, $199 at Newegg, and offers supports for a goodly range of formats, which would be great for the wealth of classics available in nonDRM formats. The Sony & Kindle are both interesting in the availability of new titles. I've been looking over Amazon at the books available for the Kindle and they seem to have most of the books I'm interested in reading for the next year. I have a large collection of pdfs so the Kindle DX has a certain appeal with its large screen. At this point in my life $300-$500 is a lot of money.