[Belfaborac]

Since the site keeps bugging me about not having posted yet, I guess I may as well take care of it sooner rather than later.

I've thought about buying an e-book reader for about a year or so, but I never got around to it until now. I considered most of the available readers, except the Kindles (which are too hideous for words, in my opinion), but in the end I found myself a PRS-505 on eBay. There were a few others I quite liked, but I really wanted a reader without all the pointless (for me) bells and whistles, so the 505 fit the bill best of the lot. Since there also appears to be something approaching a consensus that the 505's screen is one of the best, it was quite an easy decision in the end. And finally I kinda thought it was a good idea to get an inexpensive reader first time around, until I see how much use it gets. So far, however, it seems to be exactly what I wanted - stylish, minimalist and eminently portable.

Anyway, as I type this I've just finished loading 416 books onto the 505; a mixture of old favourites like the Three Musketeers, Richard Burton's translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night" and the complete works of Jules Verne, as well as most the stuff I've never quite gotten around to reading - Kafka's The Process, Joyce's Ulysses and Tolstoy's ubiquitous War and Peace to mention but a very few. The latter three may be a particularly long stretch, but maybe I'll get around to them now that I can carry them around with me everywhere I go.

Well, that's a quick intro to my selection process and extremely limited experience on the subject of e-book readers so far. A big thanks to the forum for providing me with a lot of valuable information prior to making a selection, as well as steering me in the direction of Calibre, without which managing a humongous number of e-books would have been too hard to contemplate.

Salaam,

- Bel