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This is very true - I live in a county that has several small towns, all with their own small libraries. Only one of them offers ebook downloads, due to an alliance with several other library systems in the state. However, since the vast majority of the people in this county don't live in that one town, very few people here have access to them. I'm fortunate in that I was able to get a library card from one of the larger library systems in the state because I worked in the city, but most of the people in my little community have no library access at all (ebook or pbook) without paying a fee that ranges from about $50-$100 per year.
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Definitely interesting to read all the different views on the announcement. I've been hoping someone would come out with a reader in roughly this size. I loved the screen size of my iLiad, but hated just about everything else about it like speed, no suspend, thickness, battery life etc. Can't wait to see what the actual screen dimensions are and what the contrast looks like.
The earlier comparison picture making this device look like it has worse contrast than the 600 may be primarily due to increased grey levels. The chapter highlight and bottom bar darkness could be due to better grey level depth where it's just using a lighter shade of grey for those elements. Still concerned about loss of overall contrast when compared to 505, but we'll just have to wait and see. |
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That being said, here is how I would spec it out: $5 a month entitles you to one download per month. $10 a month entitles you to three downloads. $15 a month entitles you to 5 downloads. $20 a month entitles you to unlimited downloads. Authors and publishers would get compensated proportionately to how often their books are downloaded (Though I look Stallmans idea of paying a higher per copy rate to relatively low sellers as a way of encouraging newer authors). Quote:
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Clever sony.
Screens still can't be produced quite big enough to make a reliably good job of PDF rendering. The Kindle DX certainly doesn't get it right all of the time and to me sits in that half way house of being too big to be pocketable, yet too small to display an A4 PDF comfortably. So they've done well not to be suckered into trying to compete with the DX which is a bit of a dead end. This screen format improves book reading, will be fine for magazines and newspapers and keeps the reader itself a comfortable size. It moves the game on for eReaders. I'm looking forward to seeing it in the flesh, and to the software improvements. It's got a lot to do to make me regret buying the 505, but this seems to me to be a good start. |
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Yea, this current Library Finder is quite lacking. We can only hope a better version is integrated into the 3.0 software... but then why even have a special webpage?
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So, you need a library card to download an ebook from Overdrive? But what happens if I'm not from the US?
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Being that it is ATT 3G, that is UMTS/HSDPA which is pretty much standard in most worldwide locations - europe, asia, etc. The question to ponder is whether this new device will be allowed to roam on international networks or not.
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Then you cannot download library books except if Overdrive is in your country then you can get a local library card if your library offers ebooks. It's not a Sony decision, US libraries are funded by tax payers so there could be no way they could offer access to people outside of the US.
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