ebook Readers

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:39 pm

I´m don´t really see this replacing actual books, but more like an alternative to read text on the normal screen or having to print it out. There is just so much stuff I´d love to print out to read it on the sofa or in bed, but this would actually make it cheaper in the long run. And yeah, the low energy consumption is great. I´d still would want to hold an actual book in my hands when reading a novel or something, but there is so much text online that I just want to read once and then discard it. This seems like an ideal platform for that.

However, that Sony one you linked would be way to expensive, and the Kindle, well, it just looks ugly as butt

Also, I have yet to see one of these e-paper displays in real life - sounds like an interesting concept to me

ReKleSS · Post by **ReKleSS** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:33 pm

I got to see an Sony e-ink display a while ago - at first I thought it was some display unit with a sticker over the screen. Then I poked at it and the page turned. It really feels like a static display, not like an LCD or something. The page turning speed was crap, though.

Daedalus · Post by **Daedalus** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:54 pm

I heard most of them are mediocre in PDF support and page-turning speed.

Once I find a good one that suffers from neither problem I'll definitely pick one up.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:18 am

Once these drop considerably in price I'm pouncing all over them. It'd be the IDEAL solution for long motorcycle cruises. When out on the road, I don't like to take my portable gaming systems. And for those of you who've ever tried to pack a motorcycle for a weeks worth of clothing and camping supplies, you know every cubic centimeter of packing space counts. I generally try to stuff at least 2-3 books into my bags somewhere, and that's often times not enough. The e-reader thingies will be amazing.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:23 am

When I can load up PDFs and they won't look like crap, maybe.

Until then, they're not even really convenient for me, since not enough of what I read is available in that format.

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:41 am

themachinist · Post by **themachinist** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:44 am

Wow 2-7 second page turning duration.. that's just too much. I like to mark little spots here and there and be able to flip through things quickly if I'm looking for something.
Also, I like to support my local (non-chain) bookstore

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But I AM a Trek fan... maybe if those things made little trek beeps and could hold teraquads of data.

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:52 am

When academic journals already available as .pdf's are also free. Lots of regular Googlings (i.e. not Google Scholar searches) turn up nothing but abstracts.

Anybody know how to exclude these from results?

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:33 am

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:43 am

Ahhh. Abusing Athens FTW

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:47 am

I played with a Sony reader, the text is very easy on the eye like real paper but the page turning really is super slow.

Aleanil · Post by **Aleanil** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:24 pm

I just use an old Dell Axim X51v (the vga version). Works beautiful for txt/rtf/lit/pdf/doc/whatever format you throw at it! It made many a boring day of class easier when I was a student.