Sony or Kindle so confused

[Alisa]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The CyBook in particular has numerous advantages over both the Kindle and the Sony, such as the ability to load your own fonts onto the machine, dictionary lookup (yes, the Kindle has a dictionary, but the CyBook gives you the choice of hundreds of different dictionaries to choose from), and you're not tied to one supplier for eBooks.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Cybook also allow you to have more than one dictionary searchable at a time, too? I wish the Kindle had this. I would love to have multiple reference works to search depending on what sort of book I'm reading.

[Liviu_5]

Originally Posted by Alisa

I'm curious about something here. If you want to read your books on a new PC, do you have to somehow reauthorize the book? I'm just curious what happens if Sony stops supporting their ebook store and no one has found a way to strip the DRM. Just like our reading devices, computers don't last forever. I don't have a Sony so I'm pretty unfamiliar with their software.

Most likely - from my experience with Adobe DRM a while ago that led me to eschew (nonconvertible) drm books - deauthorizing and reauthorizing and all that is unpleasant, time and nerves wasting and I completely avoid buying lrx or ade books with one exception when the price is so low as opposed to print and there are no other choices for e, to make it worthwile as disposable.

But I am no under illusions that a Sony lrx ebook or an ade/pdf drm'ed one is less disposable than a Kindle (nonconvertible) one

My original point was that when you get into ebooks, whether through Kindle, Sony or whatever, looking at content on the device's site (Amazon, Sony store) is not the ideal way to make a decision.

Get whatever device appeals to you forgetting about the content and then get whatever content works for you from wherever it works out since content is out there for all devices.

I have used my 770 which supports no drm for several years and read happily whatever I wanted in the limits of ebook availability in general, and I bought the 700 because it's nicer/bigger than the 770 which is getting visibly old too, and as fast, with sidelights and search/touchscreen so I have the features that appealed from the 770 + eink + larger screen - pocketability/ease of carry/solidity.

Superb pdf support on the 700 was unexpected and is a bonus, posibility of reading e-NYPL Adobe books and the 2-3 pdf drm novels I bought for the reasons above and read on my PC a while ago is another bonus...

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Alisa

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Cybook also allow you to have more than one dictionary searchable at a time, too? I wish the Kindle had this. I would love to have multiple reference works to search depending on what sort of book I'm reading.

Yes, it does indeed have that facility.