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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I would say the Sony 300... that is to be released soon. It will be $200 US, not sure how much it will be canadian. You should be able to load your notes on it, but not take notes on it.
But, as a student... I would say a Netbook would probably be a better all around student device for reading books, taking notes, studying, etc.
BOb
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The PRS-300 is now available at several electronics stores (e.g. Future Shop, BestBuy) in Canada.
I paid $259.99CDN for mine at the Sony Store.
As to the topic of 'Which e-reader should I buy?' I'm no expert, but let me weigh in with some thoughts.
If you're looking for a basic e-reader, something like the Sony PRS-300 would probably work just fine. In my limited experience, I would say that the '300 doesn't handle PDF files very well because it doesn't interpret the formatting codes found in PDF files well. It seems to do a much better job with EPUB documents.
If you want to read digitized newspapers, or even textbooks, or make independent notes or annotations, get something like an iRex 1000, which has a 10.2" display. The PRS-300 display is too small to permit easy reading of graphics-intensive documents, so it wouldn't be a good choice for handling either of those two kinds of documents. The iRex is also close to three times the cost of the PRS-300, so for the average student, that might be out of financial reach. Plus, there doesn't seem to be many digitized textbooks available yet.
It's still early days yet for e-readers and we're just scratching the surface. In the next 3 -5 years we will probably see the emergence of devices with colour displays offering greater bit depth, and readers with larger displays will dramatically come down in price. Once that happens, you will start seeing textbook publishers digitizing their work, and the process of using e-readers to handle full-length textbooks will become fairly easy.
For students, a tablet computer (if you can handle the price and don't mind the weight) with a folding keyboard is probably the best choice you could make. Most netbooks have screens that are too small, IMHO. But then again, my poor old eyes can't see fine type as well as they used to.
