On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:27 AM, Mohamed Bana wrote:
what does everyone think is the best reader for someone in the UK?
i'm thinking of the Kindle DX or the Sony Reader.
They're a bit different. If you need the screensize, the Kindle DX is
the only real choice (and does support .pdfs) until the PRS-900 comes
out (and it has a different screen proportion which IMO isn't going to
be as serviceable as the Kindle DX's).
I have a Sony PRS-505 which has the same size as the Sony PRS-600, and
while it's workable for re-flowable text, and quite nice for text
which have been especially formatted for its screen size (excellent
example here: http://people.umass.edu/klement/russell-imp.html ), for
any technical material w/ charts or figures which one wants to refer
to along w/ the matching text, it's sub-optimal.
They're both great units and the main reason I chose the PRS-505 over
a 1st generation Kindle is that the latter wouldn't fit in my (rather
large) shirt pockets.
William
(who once had shirts tailor-made w/ pockets to hold his Newton
MessagePad)
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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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