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I'm using an android 10 inch tablet as my ebook reader much like Grant before me, honestly I couldn't really recommend mine in the least as an ebook reader considering most the stuff I deal with is in pdf format and the loading time between pages is something of a constant annoyance for me. One of my most referenced books for a pen and paper game I play is the core rule book around about 400 pages long and roughly A4 in size (at least the print version is). It can take several minutes to load a page, and this is with a tablet that roughly runs on a 1ghz processor with 256mb of ram. Not tried .epub books on here yet but I'm half expecting a similar result.
On 28 March 2011 09:55, George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--Thanks for that Grant and Viv. I really want a device to primarily read books on and preferably in full daylight, hence the interest in the Kindle. Using it for other things is not an issue. But like Viv I don't like the idea of someone controlling my library, although I believe that Amazon have pulled back from deleting books from your Kindle, probably due to a couple of law suits that they settled out of court. But I don't think that you can back up from a Kindle.On 28/03/11 08:04, Vivi Griffin wrote:I have one of these :
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/14545934/Sovos-SVEBK5B-5-inch-E-Reader-/Product.html
It works OK for me. It is much more than just and e-reader - it plays all sorts of media as well - mp3, mpeg4 etc. Just as an e-reader, it is adequate but, not great. It is hopeless at dealing with PDF's. If you view it more as a cheap, general purpose media player to carry around your media with you that is a jack of all trades but, master of none, then you won't be disappointed.
I originally wanted a Kindle but, changed my mind because Amazon reserve the right to take your DRM e-books that you have paid for back! Amazon allow authors to dictate how many times a book that you have purchased can be downloaded. So, over time, you may buy a newer model and then find that you can't download all the books that you have bought previously. I consider this stealing.
You may want to have a look at this link before buying one :
http://articles.courant.com/2009-08-05/news/seringhaus-kindle-amazon.art_1_kindle-book-market-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos
Grant suggested using a tablet. I agree. Tablets may be more expensive but, they do far more and the e-book reader software he mentioned works really well. And stick with e-pub format and backup your books locally.
Vic
On 27 March 2011 22:49, George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Has anyone any experience of the kindle or other ebook readers? Pros & cons, problems, back up methods etc?
George
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I also have a problem in that I have about 3,000 books around the house and if I could reduce this number I would get considerable brownie points from the authorities. Why the books are a problem I don't know. It is perfectly possible to navigate around the house with a bit of practice and if you keep your elbows tucked in. This does not include magazines. Only 4 books on Linux but I still have about 10 on Widows. Maybe an opportunity to reduce the pile there.
This is for a birthday present for the authorities so I might just get a Kindle and suck it and see. I suppose another year of "WTF did you get me that for?" won't hurt. (She wouldn't dream of looking at anything to do with Linux so I'm safe here.)
George
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