Electronic bookreaders

I want something as inexpensive as possible

ARRL handbook
You can find it at most good book stores or they can order it for you. You can also order it from the ARRL web site.
It has good description of general electronic theory including projects.
It is a good place to start and is a great reference.

2007-03-15 19:30:05 by stockbrkr12

Check out the Kindle here: www.amazon.com This is less a "pros and cons" review than a hopefully useful commentary about the Kindle ...

ok - so I have been trying to find out which is the best ebook reader but there is so much information flying around that I am none the wiser! I want to buy one as a present for my Dad so it needs to be simple to use and quite intuitive (and obviously, the cheaper the better). Any ideas?

I have a Sony Reader PRS-505 and absolutely love it. It looks stylish and is very easy to use. £200, so not sure if you'd count that as cheap.

2008-12-02 09:14:57 by Rebecca Louise

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!

2008-07-26 21:01:59 by Theta

I want to read my e-books while i am travelling... what is the best and cheapest item in malaysia to read e-book? a PDA? . . i cant afford more than RM200.. i am considering about MP4 players but do you think they are efficient enough to read e-books.. with their avarage 1.8'' screen?? in Europe or Turkey we can find 2nd hand no-color screen PDAs with RM100($40).. but here can not.. .. how to find a good e-book reader in Malaysia? thanks a lot every body..

Now, I read ebooks with my Treo, but I've succesfully and comfortably read ebooks with the basic Palm m100. The cheapest non color Palm device you can find is more than adequate as an ebook reader. Lots of sources for ebook titles in the various Palm ebook format too.

2006-12-08 04:50:24 by New Life..

I downloaded a few ebooks recently and realized that I don't want to burn out my eyes sitting alone in my basement with a huge mostly white screen in my face. I looked into digital readers to take these into another, more comfortable area, and I found that they cost around $220.

Normally I don't question the price of electronic devices, but I know a bit about hardware and it seems to me that a screen (and a screen that can exist on a rather low frame-rate and be black and white) and some flash memory with some type of reader program shouldn't cost much more than $50.
I have a zen V plus with a full color screen, output for speakers and a solid 2gb of memory and it cost me a good $50. I'd just use that to read my books, but the postage-stamp size screen is a problem.
Perhaps I'm missing something (If I am, please explain what) but these prices seem ridiculous. If anyone knows where I can get one cheaply please tell me.

Side note, I own a psp that I intend to put custom firmware on
Yahoo limited my question size. I'm going to install custom firmware, but is there an easier/cheaper way to make these portable than to mod a psp?

2008-07-16 20:46:07 by icefox