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I am interested in buying one, but would like to know, if I would have to buy books from specific sites, or can I simply transfer ebooks from my computers hard drive onto the device to read it like a book.
-Thanks.
I own a Sony PRS-505 and am absolutely in love with it. Before, you had to use the proprietary Sony Ebook store, which only US residents could use, so that was a problem for me since I am located in Australia, but there's recently been a firmware update which makes it possible to buy secure Adobe and EPub files from other ebook sites.
Also, if the files that you have in your computer are .txt and .rtf or .pdf you can just load them to the reader with no prob. You just can't read mobipocket, Microsoft reader files and other proprietary files like that.
Check out http://mobileread.com
The Sony Reader forum is very active and has lots of great tips for use!
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I'm starting to get a bit of a reading bug, but I'm finding it difficult to spend 20-40$ for a book I'll probably only read once.
Someone suggested I try to find an electronic device, similar to a PDA, that's only made for reading books. She said you can downlaod the books online for 5-10$ and store them.
Just like to know where to start looking and what the name of the device actually is.
Eesh. I'm looking for something less expensive. The Kindle and the other options offered by Sony are really, really expensive. Is there something else offered with less bells/whistles that's going to work equally as good for me?
Amazon.com sells the kindle
Sony has also a version of an electronic book as well.
http://ebookstore.sony.com/
i am making a kids toy and so it would be good to get a button that turns it on for 10 seconds or around that. If anyone has an "ambulance annie" book or knows where i can get one please let me know!
What you can do is get a novelty picture frame or Christmas ornament that you can record your voice into. Here is an example:
http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-TALKING-PHOTO-FRAME/dp/B000ZC8TC4/ref=pd_sbs_hg_title_1
Hallmark used to have a greeting card that you could record into, I don't know if they still make them.
Anyway, just take the electronic guts out of it, record your voice making an ambulance noise, and rig the playback button to your toy.
Okay, what do you think of the selection of books, the price, of whatever one you have?
the sony e reader?
The ebookwise?
the kindle?
Researched all 3, well, there's 4 if you count the Cybook...
By far the best selection and pricing is the ebookwise. It's a one hit wonder. It reads ebooks. That's it. That's all. And it ain't all that fancy about it either. It just reads books.
The ebookwise books are anywhere from 20percent to 50 percent cheaper than the Sony mostly cause sony you are locked into the sony site for buying books.
And I ain't even THINKING about the kindle. Oh it's pretty sexy and cool as all hell, but the books?
ONLY amazon, and oh my sweet Jesus.
The books on Amazon for the Kindle are as much or MORE that at borders!!!!
400 bucks for the damn thing and the books (what books there are and believe me there ain't that many!) are MORE EXPENSIVE THAN AT A BRICK AND MORTAR STORE!!!
What a rip off.
Kinda like reading an e-book on an I-pod or Blackberry type of thing.
I receive online newsletters which are too long to print, but I want to read them at the gym or in a doctor's waiting room (or where ever), instead of on my computer.
I can save the newsletters in a Microsoft Word file. Can Word files be transferred to some kind of hand-held device?
I'd like specific names of the devices that are available - thanks.
Software Will Be the E-Reader's Kingmaker PC Magazine
.But the screen is only one part of what it will take
to make a successful market here. I'm convinced that, as in most cases
these days, it's the software that will drive the hardware and
determine the eventual winners and losers in this market.
That's where the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle have had such a big lead
over all their competitiors to date. The E-ink technology had been out
for a while, but it took Sony to make the device commercial, and Amazon to wirelessly link the device with its online store; and that
combination helped make this a real market.The Kindle had the initial
advantage of a much bigger store, but almost every e-reader you see has
access to an online store of some sort.
Clearly, the store is still important. Amazon is pushing its own, as
are Barnes and Noble (with the Nook) and Sony.Nearly all the
Android-based devices have access to Google Books (typically for older,
public domain titles titles), but several have content partnerships
with Barnes
TUAW ebook reader smackdown: Kindle 2 vs. iPhone
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Before the release of the original Amazon Kindle a little over a year ago, there were a number of electronic book readers that tried to create and capture the market for a replacement to traditional "dead tree" books. There have been readers for just about every handheld unit since the Newton, as well as a series of devices that all required would-be readers to hook their book to a PC or Mac to transfer the content.
Amazon changed all that with the Kindle by creating a device with built-in 3G networking that delivers books to you the minute you buy them. I was one of the people who purchased the first-generation Kindle, and though it delivered on wireless purchase of books, it was a clunky, poorly designed device.
In the meantime, Apple introduced the iPhone 3G and the App Store, and several ebook reader apps have worked their way onto the home screens of millions of iPhone owners. So, is Steve Jobs right? Is there no need for a dedicated electronic book device like Kindle?
I've used both the original Kindle and the new Kindle 2, and I've also read my share of electronic books on the iPhone. Which of the reigning champions of the ebook world is the winner? Read on to find out.
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