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Originally Posted by stargazertony
People have different wants, needs, and requirements and therefore the perfect reader for all will never exist. Actually the perfect reader for the individual will never exist either. It's always a compromise on something.
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The concept of the "perfect eReader" is a moving target. As technology changes and improves, everything "
Usually gets better.
It doesn't matter what you buy for an eReader, as long as you get one that satisfies your reading and physical requirements. I'm on my 6th eReader now, I started years ago with an eBookwise EB-1150, then went to the Sony PRS-505, then the Jetbook, followed by the Hanlin V5 and then the PRS-700, which just died on me, and now I pick up my new Kobo eReader from the Post Office today. This is intended to be an interim device until the new ones come out, unfortunately we all have to wait for the fall, apparently because investors in the various companies see the American Thanksgiving as a holiday time and want to have their product releases coincide with that.
Personally, I think that's a big mistake. What I believe is that the first one to market with a decent product is going to "win the prize". I've gone through the specs on everything I can find in 8-10" eReaders, and narrowed my choices down to a list of five:
the Innoversal Papyrus:
the ASUS DR-900 (as long as that "eee tablet" isn't what they've downgraded it to,);
the Copia Ocean 9;
The Jinke A9t; or
the Netronix E90810.
The thing is, I want an eReader. I don't care if it has 3G, or even WiFi, since it's just too damned easy to connect the units to a PC and download books to them, colour would be nice, but isn't essential until it improves dramatically, I want a long battery life, decent storage capacity, and support for as many non-DRM formats as possible (I won't buy anything that is DRMed, the publishing industry has had years to learn from the mistakes of the music and video industry, but did they? No, let's just stick our heads in the sand, it'll all go away.
I want something that's going to be easy to read in any lighting condition, no glare and something that's relatively light-weight and portable. A PIM would be another nice to have, but I don't care about MP3s or Internet browsing. I want to be able to bookmark and make notes, but I wouldn't be using it for email, and auto-rotate again would be a nice-to-have but not essential.
All of this in a reasonably priced package ($200-$300 U.S.) would be my "perfect eReader", for now.
