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Originally Posted by bob1xxx
Ok so based on what Ive read hear so far I really give up nothing in the e book reading experience if I don't go with a kindle or a nook because the vast majority of the pay ebook content can be found elsewhere in the drm protected epub format for sale. Plus the thousands of books available for free though a variety sources. So my next task a hand is to decide which e reader to buy.It looks like there a lot of good choices among e readers are there any that do good in low light situations like a dimly light starbucks at night or would all e readers needed external illumination ?
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I have a SONY and a Kindle, I found that I could get “most” books from some combination of ePUB/PDF/MOBI/LIT for the sony, but there were still a good amount of the books that I wanted that where exclusive to Amazon. The bad part was most of the books I wanted where in PDF format, where as the Amazon counter part was either MOBI or Topaz, but both reflowable. After buying the PDF I would have to spend good amount of time fixing the PDF to work on the SONY, since I hated the PDF-reflow implemented on the SONY device. In the end I realized I spent too much time fiddling with the layout.
For the books you listed I don’t think that will be the case, but you never know.
In my experience most eInk devices do not handle low lighting areas as good as regular books. The eInk background is a light green and the fonts a dark black. I find for low lighting I needed to increase the font size to continue to read without any eye strain.
If I recall correctly even though the Jetbook also uses a monochrome screen it is not very readable in the dark.
Have you thought about just buying a PDA or smartphone. You can pickup a cheap BB Storm for about $100. Most PDA/Smartphones can handle multiple DRM like LIT, MOBI, Kindle, eReader, and the new HTC is getting Adobe.