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Originally Posted by nekokami
Both units are more expensive than a Sony Reader and have shorter battery life. The screens are likely to be just what she thinks is already out there. What OS do they use and what reader software will therefore work on them? I'm afraid I've been focusing on e ink devices.
Could be. But she hasn't been writing for as long as Pratchett, either.
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Hmm, about the price, for what I can see around the net all three are about 400 $. On battery life you are absolutely right, but, on the other hand, both the N800 and the WordsGear can be used for a lot more things that reading ebooks.
On eink... obviously tastes are tastes, but, well, the fact is thay I'm not really a big fan of it. As the eink technology is today the quality of the screens (10:1 contrast ratio, ouch!) is the same of the machines on which I started reading ebook, ie the not-backlighted Newton MP100 of 1993. The main thing that I really love in the incoming Readius, and the reason for wich I will buy one as soon as it sold, is its "rollable"... better make it "foldable", form factor.
About Pratchett vs JKR, again, tastes are tastes, but IMHO Discoworld was a lot batter than HP right from the beginning. And lets not speak of the public image of Pratchett vs the one of Mrs "Oh-how-much-I-suffered-in-my-life!" JKR...
