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aleandre · 07-15-2007, 06:30 AM

Hey everybody !

Thank you for your account, lloydt, I found it confirming my views on the Sony Reader and the Iliad. I have Sony Reader, and besides buying books from Connect, I find myself re-reading old French litterature which I had to read when I was at school, but didn't enjoy. Now that I am older (wiser ?), and living out of France, I find ebooks are the perfect way of getting these oldies easily, via Gutenberg and the like. Really, nowadays, with all the communications means we have, living abroad starts to be a piece of cake !

As for the Iliad, a friend of mine let one to me 3 months ago for a week-end, and I see the potential of the beast, owing mostly to its bigger screen and wider format compatibility. A no-go for the "daily minutes of down time to catch up on your pile of guilt and pleasure reading" you're referring to would be the boot-up time, though. I just too used to grabbing my Sony Reader and get back into a book after 4 seconds, as opposed to 45 in the case of the Iliad.

All this to say, that although I am fully satisfied by the Reader, I will probably get an Iliad as well, since I see the two devices as being complementary... But ONLY when Irex will have ironed-out their battery life problems and put proper power-saving in the thing. Unless Bookeen beats them to market a larger-screen device with a wider range of format compatibility than he Sony...

Let's hope that Irex will get its acts together wrt the Iliad 2 this year, still.

07-15-2007, 06:30 AM	#4
aleandre Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rijswijk ZH, Netherlands Device: Sony PRS-500, Cybook Opus, iPad	Hey everybody ! Thank you for your account, lloydt, I found it confirming my views on the Sony Reader and the Iliad. I have Sony Reader, and besides buying books from Connect, I find myself re-reading old French litterature which I had to read when I was at school, but didn't enjoy. Now that I am older (wiser ?), and living out of France, I find ebooks are the perfect way of getting these oldies easily, via Gutenberg and the like. Really, nowadays, with all the communications means we have, living abroad starts to be a piece of cake ! As for the Iliad, a friend of mine let one to me 3 months ago for a week-end, and I see the potential of the beast, owing mostly to its bigger screen and wider format compatibility. A no-go for the "daily minutes of down time to catch up on your pile of guilt and pleasure reading" you're referring to would be the boot-up time, though. I just too used to grabbing my Sony Reader and get back into a book after 4 seconds, as opposed to 45 in the case of the Iliad. All this to say, that although I am fully satisfied by the Reader, I will probably get an Iliad as well, since I see the two devices as being complementary... But ONLY when Irex will have ironed-out their battery life problems and put proper power-saving in the thing. Unless Bookeen beats them to market a larger-screen device with a wider range of format compatibility than he Sony... Let's hope that Irex will get its acts together wrt the Iliad 2 this year, still.