Orizon News from Bookeen

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

I really can't understand you: why Pocketbook instead of a Kindle?

Because he live in spain and the spanish publishers uses ePub ? Because amazon proposes no books in spanish ?

[edge71]

Because I have many books and i would sort my library in folders and see the book covers and i don´t like the collections of kindle for sort the library.

Pocketbook new ereaders will have dictionary, folders for library, covers, more formats(epub, fb2, prc, mobi), touchscreen, wifi, maybe text to speech in spanish, more applications, etc. For these reasons I prefer the upcoming pocketbook like the PB603 over the kindle3

Regards

[Geppetto]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Because he live in spain and the spanish publishers uses ePub ? Because amazon proposes no books in spanish ?

Check his/her quote's points I underlined.

Anyway, where are these Spanish ebook publishers?

[Geppetto]

Originally Posted by edge71

Because I have many books and i would sort my library in folders and see the book covers and i don´t like the collections of kindle for sort the library.

Pocketbook new ereaders will have dictionary, folders for library, covers, more formats(epub, fb2, prc, mobi), touchscreen, wifi, maybe text to speech in spanish, more applications, etc. For these reasons I prefer the upcoming pocketbook like the PB603 over the kindle3

Regards

I still can't understand you. I think that if you emphasize on text-to-speech you should buy a Kindle (which has got the Oxford British and American English dictionaries built in, too). If you emphasize on dictionaries you could buy the forthcoming Sony 350 or 650 readers which have got 12 dictionaries included (Spanish too). Moreover, I think that the notion of Pocketbook/Bookeen readers' software being better than Kindle's or Sony's is really a weird statement.
I think Kindle and Sony readers are definitely better devices than the others.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

I really can't understand you: why Pocketbook instead of a Kindle?

Only one word: Folders.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

I think Kindle and Sony readers are definitely better devices than the others.

But they don't allow to order your books in different levels. And no, a lot of tags/collections simulating the different levels is not good for me. So, in that matter (which is important for me), they lose the race.

[EowynCarter]

I think that the notion of Pocketbook/Bookeen readers' software being better than Kindle's or Sony's is really a weird statement.

Well, ePub rendering on the cybook is right now, better then sony's. At least bookeen know the meaning of justified !
Amazon can't use a decent e-book format. (mobi is quite limited compared to what ePub can do).

Why, because amazon and sony are the big ones, they are necessarily be better ?

Unless you're really lucky, there's no perfect reader. It's all about compromises.
In edge case, pocketbook seams the way to go. prc support for old files, ePub support to buy new books, dictionary support. There, pocketbook is the only one offering all this, and that make pocketbook better for edge oh, and remember, mobi support on pocketbook is drm-free only.

[Geppetto]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

But they don't allow to order your books in different levels. And no, a lot of tags/collections simulating the different levels is not good for me. So, in that matter (which is important for me), they lose the race.

You have never seen a pearl screen.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

You have never seen a pearl screen.

So? Nice hardware and bad software? As I've been reading used paperbacks and at my Palm E2, I think I can survive with my eInk screen. But I don't think that, after having kept organized my books in a way I like, I could come back to such a mess (for me). Different points of view.

[Geppetto]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Well, ePub rendering on the cybook is right now, better then sony's. At least bookeen know the meaning of justified !
Amazon can't use a decent e-book format. (mobi is quite limited compared to what ePub can do).

Why, because amazon and sony are the big ones, they are necessarily be better ?

Unless you're really lucky, there's no perfect reader. It's all about compromises.
In edge case, pocketbook seams the way to go. prc support for old files, ePub support to buy new books, dictionary support. There, pocketbook is the only one offering all this, and that make pocketbook better for edge oh, and remember, mobi support on pocketbook is drm-free only.

I've got hundreds of mobi drm-free files on my Kindle, you know.

And I've got a Cybook and a Sony 600 (and a 300, and I've just purchased a 350, too), and I can't see how ePUBs could be better on Cybook.

And believe me, ePUB is NOT better than mobipocket. On the contrary, I think quite the opposite.

I own a small ebook publishing firm, and I "make" my ebooks on my own. My ebooks are in mobi, epub and pdf formats and I think ePUB format is really primitive and incomplete: you can't even make letters in small capitals (in mobi you can).

The only reason of ePUB's very same existence is that mobi format is owned by Amazon. Nothing more, nothing less.

[edge71]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Only one word: Folders.

Yes folders and can't see the covers of the book. And I hope that PB has text to speech in spanish

Greetings

[Geppetto]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

So? Nice hardware and bad software? As I've been reading used paperbacks and at my Palm E2, I think I can survive with my eInk screen. But I don't think that, after having kept organized my books in a way I like, I could come back to such a mess (for me). Different points of view.

The point is readability: the very same raison d'être of an ebook reader

[Geppetto]

Originally Posted by edge71

Yes folders and can't see the covers of the book.

You are misinformed: you can see the cover. And there are folders.

[edge71]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

You are misinformed: you can see the cover. And there are folders.

Can you explain? You can sort files in folders when you connect to PC i think, but can you see the folders in the kindle3? And the covers in a list, or only when you read a book (the first page)?

[EowynCarter]

And I've got a Cybook and a Sony 600 (and a 300, and I've just purchased a 350, too), and I can't see how ePUBs could be better on Cybook.

Justified, css support, no crappy ade page numbers...

Yeah, pearl screens are nice, but it's not worth losing the other advantages the orizon would offer me. As as said, no reader is perfect, you have to make a choise.
And I care about using wi-fi to buy books in france, folders, swapping the sd card from orizon to opus, than I care about pearl.

I've got hundreds of mobi drm-free files on my Kindle, you know.

Yeah, but it don't read ePub, and ePub with adept drm is a must have is you want to buy book in Europe. Else, you're restricted into amazon, and they lacks lots a books !

I own a small ebook publishing firm, and I "make" my ebooks on my own. My ebooks are in mobi, epub and pdf formats and I think ePUB format is really primitive and incomplete: you can't even make letters in small capitals (in mobi you can).

ePub can use small capitals. There's verry little html and css can't do.
ADE is to blame there !