* OT: Kindle
@ 2009-10-08 7:09 Wolfgang Schuster
2009-10-08 10:27 ` Mohamed Bana
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2009-10-08 7:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,
Amazon sells his Kindle now also outside of the US: http://bit.ly/IGfV9
Wolfgang
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* Re: OT: Kindle
2009-10-08 7:09 OT: Kindle Wolfgang Schuster
@ 2009-10-08 10:27 ` Mohamed Bana
2009-10-08 10:32 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-10-08 11:21 ` William Adams
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From: Mohamed Bana @ 2009-10-08 10:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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what does everyone think is the best reader for someone in the UK?
i'm thinking of the Kindle DX or the Sony Reader.
Can I get some thoughts please.
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Amazon sells his Kindle now also outside of the US: http://bit.ly/IGfV9
>
> Wolfgang
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* Re: OT: Kindle
2009-10-08 10:27 ` Mohamed Bana
@ 2009-10-08 10:32 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-10-08 10:52 ` Matthijs Kooijman
2009-10-08 11:21 ` William Adams
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2009-10-08 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Mohamed Bana wrote:
> what does everyone think is the best reader for someone in the UK?
>
> i'm thinking of the Kindle DX or the Sony Reader.
>
> Can I get some thoughts please.
I guess the question is whether or not you are happy with being
able to order from the Amazon store alone. Here is a (i think)
useful comparison chart (by iReX, a competitor):
http://www.irexreader.com/pdf/IREX-comparison-readers.pdf
Best wishes,
Taco
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* Re: OT: Kindle
2009-10-08 10:27 ` Mohamed Bana
2009-10-08 10:32 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2009-10-08 11:21 ` William Adams
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From: William Adams @ 2009-10-08 11:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:27 AM, Mohamed Bana wrote:
> what does everyone think is the best reader for someone in the UK?
>
> i'm thinking of the Kindle DX or the Sony Reader.
They're a bit different. If you need the screensize, the Kindle DX is
the only real choice (and does support .pdfs) until the PRS-900 comes
out (and it has a different screen proportion which IMO isn't going to
be as serviceable as the Kindle DX's).
I have a Sony PRS-505 which has the same size as the Sony PRS-600, and
while it's workable for re-flowable text, and quite nice for text
which have been especially formatted for its screen size (excellent
example here: http://people.umass.edu/klement/russell-imp.html ), for
any technical material w/ charts or figures which one wants to refer
to along w/ the matching text, it's sub-optimal.
They're both great units and the main reason I chose the PRS-505 over
a 1st generation Kindle is that the latter wouldn't fit in my (rather
large) shirt pockets.
William
(who once had shirts tailor-made w/ pockets to hold his Newton
MessagePad)
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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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