E Book readers

[blackie65]

Not as well versed on E readers as you guys seem to be but my wife and I just purchased the Nook color for our teenage boys. This device, for the $249, seems to have many benefits. You might want to check this out as well.

 

[jinjimbob]

The Nook colour will give you about 8 hours battery life, if you turn off the wifi.
The Nook mono will give you many weeks life.

The Nook colour isn't that easy on the eyes to read a book on, it isn't E-Ink, just a normal LCD.

 

[dmccarty]

... I like the idea of free reading from the library. I bought the wife and IPod Touch for her birthday and I have read that it will work as an ereader, have to check into that some more too.

Let her try to read on the iPod before spending more money. My downloaded a bunch of apps to read the various book formats though I was very skeptical that the small screen would make reading a book easy.

I downloaded a couple of books. One was a bunch of short stories by Kipling and I reread quite a few of them. I also read a full book as well. I was shocked and surprised that reading the book was not hard at all even on the small screen. I think this is because you can easily change the size of the letters and the page reformats on the fly. I would guess the bigger screen devices would make reading "better" but my smartphone apps are good enough so that I am not going to spend a couple of hundred dollars on another device.

Downside to my smartphone is that the battery life stinks. The Kindle wins that contest by a mile.

Later,
Dan

 

[milkman]

Let her try to read on the iPod before spending more money. My downloaded a bunch of apps to read the various book formats though I was very skeptical that the small screen would make reading a book easy.

I downloaded a couple of books. One was a bunch of short stories by Kipling and I reread quite a few of them. I also read a full book as well. I was shocked and surprised that reading the book was not hard at all even on the small screen. I think this is because you can easily change the size of the letters and the page reformats on the fly. I would guess the bigger screen devices would make reading "better" but my smartphone apps are good enough so that I am not going to spend a couple of hundred dollars on another device.

Downside to my smartphone is that the battery life stinks. The Kindle wins that contest by a mile.Later,Dan

I played around with the IPod for a while yesterday and downloaded a free book and I too was surprised at how easy it was to read, finished reading the book too. I've looked at the free library books and downloaded one og them, but it wasn't as easy to read, not much print on each page.
One reason that I'm hesitant to give her another electronic device is that she only uses the IPod to listen to music when she walks and this weather has put a stop to that, so it just lays on her desk. I think I'll let her play around with this and get her a gift card to her favorite store. I know that the battery on the IPod won't last as long as one of the ereaders, but it worked for several hours, probably longer than she would read at one setting. If I were to get one of the readers, I'm pretty much set on the Nook after several comments here and looking at them on line, mainly because they will work with the free books at the library.

 

[milkman]

Well, I decided to go with the Sony, found it at Wallys, free ship to home and looked like a good price.


Black Sony E-Reader Pocket eTouch Edition - Walmart.com

 

[texbaylea]

Well, I decided to go with the Sony, found it at Wallys, free ship to home and looked like a good price.


Black Sony E-Reader Pocket eTouch Edition - Walmart.com

Thanks for the info. WalMart is one of the places we stay away from so I hadn't seen the offer. I just ordered one to see if we like using a reader. Since I will have a Knee replaced right after Christmas I will give it a shake down cruise
I was considering the Sony already but the PRS900. This saves some money.


Vernon

 

[Ken45101]

Re: the iPod, I think readability depends on the format of the book. I don't have an iPod, but I do have an iPad. From what I've seen, epub books can be resized and the lines wrap ("reflow" I think is the term). But a lot of the PDF books are more just images that cannot be reflowed. I think that's the Google public domain approach.

Ken