You definitely need external lighting if it's dark. However both devices I had (Sony and Kindle) have a number of zoom options (the kindle has about 6-7 levels of zoom). E-book formats are design to be re-flowable (like HTML) so you can easily zoom in/out
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy Sent: Friday, 3 September 2010 10:32 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: verdict on kindle/ebook reader? Hi Simon, all, What's the screen like on the kindle? I gather most of these e-readers are grey scale, not colour, and use reflective rather than back-lit? I'm getting at that age where I need reading glasses when light is poor (or print too small) so I'm concerned about the need to have an external light on these devices; but I guess they'd still have a lot less glare than any back-lit device. Thoughts/comments ?? |-----Original Message----- |From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet- |[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon Reed |Sent: Friday, 3 September 2010 11:33 AM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: verdict on kindle/ebook reader? | |I've found the smaller Kindle near useless for technical books such as |Wrox/Apress in PDF format but you can easily convert to a more reader |friendly format using the Mobipocket software: |http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN |<http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN> |Also a lot of the new releases are available from Amazon in Kindle |format |natively: |http://www.amazon.com/Professional-SharePoint-2010-Administration- |ebook/dp/B003TFE8T2/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&m=A24IB90LPZJ0BS&s=digital- |text&qid=1283477369&sr=1-5 |<http://www.amazon.com/Professional-SharePoint-2010-Administration- |ebook/dp/B003TFE8T2/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&m=A24IB90LPZJ0BS&s=digital- |text&qid=1283477369&sr=1-5> Given the shipping times and costs of the |physical copies I wouldn't go back, being able to do a text search |across all |books on the device can be really handy also. | |Just my 2c | |Simon |
