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jveenem · 09-20-2007, 02:15 AM

I'll say it simply. I have a Ebookwise. I can get anything that I can get into text into it and it reads fine. MORE than fine.

I spent $50 on it. ... Why would I want to spend $300 to do the same thing on a Sony or $600 on a Rex??

Well, that's not exactly right, I spent $100 on it but a cheesy $50 Christmas bonus broke it in half. But as it seems it now is considered by a lot here as a "Legacy Device" getting it on Ebay for $50 seems highly likely.

I found the Alice in wonderland illustrated Ebook for Ebookwise very nice and interesting. When I first got the Ebookwise I experimented and did an illustrated "Varney the Vampire" that went pretty well ... but I tired of the effort. I decided I'd rather just read it.

I've seen laudable efforts of a LOT of people here to get regular PDF's even Pdf Manga to read in the Sony but from what I've see it won't come near to replacing reading a Scan of a full color comic with CDisplay on my pretty ordinary Computer Monitor. Or even reading an out of print PDF Dungeons and dragon module by just plain printing it out.

If it's text the ETI2 does it excellently. The other ebook machines are just gilding (and I do mean gold!) the lily, they don't look even close to getting to the next step, of going beyond just plain text to do a magazine sort of layout page ... even in black and white, let alone color.

The only thing that got this ecomic lover interested was when I saw an HP monitor that swiveled from landscape to portrait size. It was enormous. It was nearly the size of original Comic book art, bigger than standard magazine size ... and in vivid bright color. I thought that maybe it was overkill. $375 to see giant comic pages whole when an ordinary monitor can do the panels teir by teir just fine. -- tho' I remain sorely tempted.

The more I see of ebook hardware the more I think we're a decade out from where we want to be. I hope I'm wrong. I hope a magazine sized full color page ... within monetary grasp, within reason ... in the next couple of years but ... nothing seems anywhere near it now.

later
JVN

09-20-2007, 02:15 AM	#1
jveenem Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Ebookwise	Am I wrong or is it too soon for most ebook readers I'll say it simply. I have a Ebookwise. I can get anything that I can get into text into it and it reads fine. MORE than fine. I spent $50 on it. ... Why would I want to spend $300 to do the same thing on a Sony or $600 on a Rex?? Well, that's not exactly right, I spent $100 on it but a cheesy $50 Christmas bonus broke it in half. But as it seems it now is considered by a lot here as a "Legacy Device" getting it on Ebay for $50 seems highly likely. I found the Alice in wonderland illustrated Ebook for Ebookwise very nice and interesting. When I first got the Ebookwise I experimented and did an illustrated "Varney the Vampire" that went pretty well ... but I tired of the effort. I decided I'd rather just read it. I've seen laudable efforts of a LOT of people here to get regular PDF's even Pdf Manga to read in the Sony but from what I've see it won't come near to replacing reading a Scan of a full color comic with CDisplay on my pretty ordinary Computer Monitor. Or even reading an out of print PDF Dungeons and dragon module by just plain printing it out. If it's text the ETI2 does it excellently. The other ebook machines are just gilding (and I do mean gold!) the lily, they don't look even close to getting to the next step, of going beyond just plain text to do a magazine sort of layout page ... even in black and white, let alone color. The only thing that got this ecomic lover interested was when I saw an HP monitor that swiveled from landscape to portrait size. It was enormous. It was nearly the size of original Comic book art, bigger than standard magazine size ... and in vivid bright color. I thought that maybe it was overkill. $375 to see giant comic pages whole when an ordinary monitor can do the panels teir by teir just fine. -- tho' I remain sorely tempted. The more I see of ebook hardware the more I think we're a decade out from where we want to be. I hope I'm wrong. I hope a magazine sized full color page ... within monetary grasp, within reason ... in the next couple of years but ... nothing seems anywhere near it now. later JVN