At 11:44 17/11/2010, you wrote:
some weeks back there was a discussion about
e-readers and at the time I hadn't any plans to
get one. I knew I'd not go down the kindle route
as I don't like amazons policies, mainly the
fact they don't really let you own the books you have 'purchased'
yes a worry along with no local storage ie a SD card.
I also thought the Sony readers too expansive. I
really only wanted to spend in the region of
£50 and there don't seem to be any second-hand
ones around, at least not on-line.
I got my Sony 505 from cash generator for £100 in store though.
The I stumbled upon one selling for just under
£80 on the JohnLewis website
http://www.johnlewis.com/231015788/Product.aspx?om_i=Ca7fEz&om_u=_BM2AKGB8VjJZqA
I'd not seen any mention of this Sovos reader
before and did some browsing for reviews and it
seemed to be OK so ordered one. I have been
using it for several weeks now and am quite
pleased with it. It doesn't have an e-paper
screen but I'm happy enough with the greyish background.
eurgh!
The whole point to me of ebook readers is eink
makes it easy on the eyes to read.
What you have bought is as bad as an iPad laptop
or normal monitor for eye strain.
Page turning is quite quick enough although
there is an audible click when using the
buttons. I downloaded a bunch of epub format
books from various websites and found there is
one problem with that format in that zooming the
image spoils the page formatting. This may be
common to all e-book formats and I can live with
it. A couple if things I probably won't use are
the ability to store jpeg and mp3 files and
display/play them. The demo pics included look
good thanks to the colour screen. One of
advantage of the screen is that is is backlit so
the reader can be used in bed ;-)
there are book cover lights for e-ink readers.
A bonus is that I don't need to purchase a case
or mains charger as they are included. The case
is rigid so protects the somewhat delicate
screen. I used calibre to copy the e-books onto
the reader and that seems to have messed up the
original file system and the demo Music and
Photo files are now included in the eBook menu
I hope it works our ok for you.
Martin N
Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini,
Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
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