kindle or nook or nero ?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

I wonder how somebody can tell things like "ePUB is the standard". Standard? Standard?

- half the ereaders sold in the world since eink readers do exist were Kindles, at least.

- Amazon is holding 75-80% of the ebooks market in 2010.

- moreover, the only decent 9-10" eink reader is Kindle DX

Those facts are true, but nonetheless ePub is an open, public standard, and Mobipocket (used by the Kindle) is not. You seem to be confusing something being a standard with it being the most popular.

However, outside the local US market, ePub is most assuredly the dominant format.

[JSWolf]

There really isn't a best 6" device for PDF. They are all lousy at handling letter sized/A4 PDF. None of them do a particularly good job and you really won't care for any of them if PDF is what you really want/need.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There really isn't a best 6" device for PDF. They are all lousy at handling letter sized/A4 PDF. None of them do a particularly good job and you really won't care for any of them if PDF is what you really want/need.

That's absolutely true, Jon, but some 6" readers are less awful at handling PDFs than others are. Top of the "awfulness league" would probably be the Kindle 2 or 3, which supports no form of reflow whatsoever and on which reading an A4 PDF is quite simply impossible. Devices which support reflow - eg Sony, the Neo, etc - can do a pretty decent job with PDFs that are primarily text. You'll probably get line breaks in funny places, but the text is readable.

[largo]

hey harryt

do you own all the devices in your profile ?
do you have BeBook Neo in hand ?

if yes can i send you a link to pdf file to test and thell me if the line splits, tables and Illustrations kept in there original form (things i experience with my current device, unknown mark).

thanks

[HarryT]

Of course I own all the devices in my profile - why else would I list them? Sure, post a PDF here (an out of copyright one, please) and I'll be happy to photograph it on the Neo. With reflow, however, tables, illustrations, etc, generally disappear.

[largo]

thanks harry

you have pm from me.