Brother can you spare some truth?

[calvin-c]

Originally Posted by zacheryjensen

Reliable maybe. Biased definitely. It's okay to be biased as long as you're honest about it. Let people know "We at MR really like mobile reading, which basically implies electronic books and similar things." and they can adjust any interpretations of opinions with that in mind to their own person bias about eBooks.

Of course I don't think MR's bias is hidden in any way so I'd say it's pretty honest, despite the quote above

I think it depends on what info you're looking for. If you're trying to decide between treebooks & ebooks then I agree-MR is definitely biased in favor of ebooks, and openly so. But the OP was reading reviews that compared two ebook readers-I IMO MR info on that is unbiased.

[forcheville]

Just to return to the subject of the Sony PRS 505. I have one and am very happy with it, wouldn't swap it for a Kindle etc., but want to add 2c worth in favour of pdfs.

After using LRF and epub I now prefer all my ebooks in pdf, custom formatted, because it is the easiest way to get exactly the layout I want.

Whenever possible I convert books to this format via a doc or html. OpenOffice has a very fast free pdf converter which I generally use in preference to Acrobat; apart from speed its treatment of table of contents is more consistent.

If you have texts with diagrams or pictures, it is a great advantage to be able to size and place everything in a word processor interface and then create an ebook that will reliably preserve the look.

[HansTWN]

Originally Posted by Sonist

I didn't lie. I simply told the rep, that I just realized it's a Topaz title, and that I do not want anything to do with Topaz.

To which he responded that he understands completely, and refunded the $8 or so.

My impression was, that he knew why I didn't want it, and this was not the first time he had heard this.

The bottom line is, I will in all likelihood replace my readers within the next year, and it may not be with an Amazon device. I'd like to keep the titles I purchased, which is not so much to ask, IMO.

Of course, I feel the same way. I don't want to read the books on my iphone, but on my reader, including future readers. But I am still surprised that Amazon sees it that way. This does tell us, that they really listen to their customers. Amazon!

[HansTWN]

Originally Posted by forcheville

Just to return to the subject of the Sony PRS 505. I have one and am very happy with it, wouldn't swap it for a Kindle etc., but want to add 2c worth in favour of pdfs.

After using LRF and epub I now prefer all my ebooks in pdf, custom formatted, because it is the easiest way to get exactly the layout I want.

Whenever possible I convert books to this format via a doc or html. OpenOffice has a very fast free pdf converter which I generally use in preference to Acrobat; apart from speed its treatment of table of contents is more consistent.

If you have texts with diagrams or pictures, it is a great advantage to be able to size and place everything in a word processor interface and then create an ebook that will reliably preserve the look.

You may well be right, but I just want to get reading, not spend hours preparing the file.