Ebooks

Any of you use an ereader to read ebooks?

I have a ton of them but can't stand to read them off of a screen. I was thinking of buying one, but don't know if it's worth the money.

BOOMPED.

>>1
You mean, the hardware? It's worth the money if you don't want to use a laptop or a cellphone.

>>3
Which would you recommend? I need one that let's me put ebooks on that's from the net as opposed to their official store.

Get a psp and use that.

i use a gemstar reader that is nice when you can actually get the fucking program to work, and it sucks with formats of files

Are those Kindles any good?

>>7
Amazon Kindles?

No, like actual kindle.

Amazon kindles are very good, but only if you live in the US, where the wireless support works properly.

If I were you I'd get one that gives you a bit more flexibility about where you get your books and what format you choose. So yeah, PSP, or a nice phone...

I've got the Sony Reader and I'm pretty happy with it.

>>11
Do you have to buy books from the sony store or can you put ones from elsewhere (eg downloaded from tpb) on to the reader?

what about the barnes and noble e-reader?

I've got the sony PRS-600, it really helps me focus on the reading and not get distracted. Also it's easy on the eyes and as a digital pack-rat I like the feeling of carrying more books with me than I can read in one go.

Yea I thought to buy one but then found out one interesting issue. e-reader is not something cheap and for example if my lovely cat jump down from nowhere on it I will be more than disappointed. Cause is a very fragile screen, of course. I should be waiting for more or less cheap models with more or less solid screens.

One issue to consider is format support - e. g., only the latest Kindle has native support for PDF, which is still the most common e-text format on-line. Also consider battery life, storage volume, & such. The real advantages of eBook devices are (1) e-Ink is easier on the eyes than high contrast LCD or CRT, and (2) because of how it works (no constant refresh) power requirements are lower. Some also have nice extras, like built-in dictionaries. Depends where you get your texts from, but on principle I'd say don't lock yourself into a proprietary format, esp. a DRM-based one like Kindle. There are various sites out there that list readers and compare specs, which is also useful.