OT: Kindle

OT: Kindle

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Hi all,

Amazon sells his Kindle now also outside of the US: http://bit.ly/IGfV9

Wolfgang

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Re: OT: Kindle

[Mohamed Bana]

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

[Taco Hoekwater]

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

[Matthijs Kooijman]

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> 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):
I saw a presentation form iRex yesterday, and got to hold a few of their
projects. Pretty neat, the latest ones even have 3G connectivity (US only for
now, they're working on covering Europe as well).

What's particularly cool about their readers is that they run on Linux and
allow customization and installing / developing of applications.

Gr.

Matthijs

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Re: OT: Kindle

[William Adams]

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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