PRS-600 or Kindle 2

[wachuko]

Originally Posted by nathanb

Thanks everyone for the helpful posts.

I think I am going to have to wait for the 600 to come out and read some reviews on it, I have heard that the screen contrast is not that good so I will probably want to see it in person before I get it or the Kindle. But all your answers were very helpful. Thanks!

We are actually already married but we got married out of the country so my friends did not have a chance to come to the wedding. The guys wanting to buy me an ebook reader would all have been my groomsmen and in my circle of friends it is normal for us to get the groom a sweet gift just for him. So, since we live overseas and I love reading my friends thought this would be a good gift for me.

Careful there... The contrast is not that good when compared to the Sony 505, which is just excellent... but between the two your are deciding, there are about the same (I got a chance to see a Kindle2, from a friend, this weekend)...

So if deciding between the two I would go with the Sony PRS600... while I love the idea of wireless and instant downloading of the books, I just hate how the Kindle2 looks... Sony has them owned when it comes to design. IMHO of course...

[vho3000]

Originally Posted by nathanb

Thanks to everyone for their helpful answers.

One other question that some other more knowledgeable people might know: do either of these ebook readers support Chinese or Korean text?

Thanks,

Nathan

Both do not support natively Chinese or Korean text. But you can follow established procedures to hack it to read Chinese like following Porkupan 1.05f firmware update. You need to know some computer programming to do it properly.

Or you can select the fonts for Chinese and ask somebody who had experience to make the image files for you. After that, you can just copy and replace your image files ; hit a button to execute the batch files. It will be all done automatically then. Detailed procedure to follow if you are interested.

vho3000

[vho3000]

Originally Posted by nathanb

Hello, I need your help.

My very awesome friends are giving me an ebook reader as a wedding gift. I am trying to decide between the PRS-600 and the Kindle 2. I am leaning to the PRS-600 because it is newer, is more open on formats, and is touchscreen. Which one would you get if you were me and why?

I am mostly considering these two because I really want to be able to take notes with my books, it is something that is a pretty high priority for me.

Thanks for any help,

Nathan

I would go for PRS 600 because it can be hacked to read Chinese and other languages with book titles and authors in any language.