I just made a trip to compusa yesterday and got a first hand look at the Sony Reader. I walk away very impressed with it. To be honest, it is so readable and clear at all angles, it almost felt like it has backlight!! But in the end I didn't get one ... the sales person was very eager to shove onedown my throat though. I asked if they have one and she brought me to the cashier and started scanning the UPC!! hehe ... Two things stop me from getting the Reader just yet. One, no native HTML support ... and I mean, renering + hyperlinking to local files. I have a huge volume of reference reading materials (6000+ files) that are cross linked. If I have to convert each of them individually and loose the hyperlinkings in the process, I'm out. So gowerpoint's uBook reader would be an excellent choice! Did I mention that I got a registered licence for the uBook? And their licence is a one for all type, meaning I can use any of the versions of ubook on a PocketPC, HandheldPC and computer with just one license. Now this is one honest and good company! 8)
Second thing is native support for Chinese character display. I've gotten Chinese display and input all setup in my SHARP Zaurus c1000, so any new reading device must support Chinese text.
I only need Chinese text support for the books, English menu is perfectly good for me.
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Originally Posted by da_jane
It would be so that I could read books without conversion. Sony doesn't read html natively. Many, many romance e-publishers offer html as a format choice, plus a read reader can convert secure files into html format. That is a huge deal for me. I bought my Sony Reader with a 2 year accident protection plan. I feel confident that I won't lose money on this transaction.
There isn't anything about the Sony Reader except for the screen that makes me want to stick with it. There isn't any content that it sells that I can't get somewhere else, cheaper. It doesn't offer a great browsing format. A way to make notes. It just has a beautiful screen.
If I can get the beautiful screen that reads htmls natively, Sony loses me as a customer. Bookeen partnered with Gowerpoint Ubook reader in the past and I hope that program is the basis for its e-reading software. Gowerpoint allows to have bookmarks, display pictures, has a great library feature. The only thing it doesn't do is allow you to rate your books. Other than that, I think it is a wonderful ebook program.
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