Ok, so on an Itouch you can read books. Well, what I need to know is should I download ereader or Stanza so I can read the books I download. Which one has worked best for you?
Ereader.
More user friendly and I believe its a more trusted program.
ok first off here are the three things that i really want.
1) Sony PRS-500 (eReader)
2) Electric Guitar with accessories
3) digital camera (for a concert in august)
the digital camera isn’t one of my main concerns at the time because the concert isn’t until august but i still would like to have one.
I want the eReader because i am an avid reader and we are getting ready to go on vacation and i want to take some books (quite a few) because i don’t know how fast or slow i will read and that will clear up a TON of space on this trip and all of my marching band competitions and ect.
I want the guitar because i want to learn how to play. Ive already got everything i would need picked out and stuff i just don’t know f i want it more than the eReader.
The eReader i can get from amazon.com for $269
the guitar with accessories is about $240
and the camera i want is about $200
so they are all around the same price.
its just that for the eReader you have to buy the books. i know that you cn download some PDF’s off the internet for free but its all the old books that im not interested in. so theres alot of money that would be going into books.
the guitar i dont know if i will stick with, also i would have to pay for lessons and extra stings when they break and stuff.
the camera i would have to buy an SD chip.
so theres extra things that go along with all.
so the question is, which should i buy?
thanks
Personally I would go with Sony PRS-500
I have stories that I have saved in Word on my PC that I would like to be able to take with me for mobile reading. Is this an option for any of the new E book readers out there? I’d like to be certain before I think of buying one.
Both Kindle and Sony Reader can read Word document. See the second paragraph in this thorough review of an actual user. It mentioned reading Word document on the Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR6L0G6ZY33S96%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=more_info-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
I suggest you to choose the Amazon Kindle. It is selling better than the Sony Reader, and the Kindle is now having the biggest share in the ebook reader market. It has free internet access and reading aloud functions, which is not available on the Sony Reader.
Hope this helps.
If price was no object and i wanted to buy only one of these, which one is the best and why? I am leaning toward the SOny Ereader because it is not exclusive to just Amazon (Kindle) or just Barnes and Noble (Nook). plus Sony has access to the public libraries for free and Google books!!! Still dont know whih is best though.
Don’t choose the Sony Reader. It doesn’t have good content support, and quite a lot of people complain it is difficult to find books for it.
Actually there are quite a lot of places where you can find free ebooks for the Amazon Kindle. Some examples are here (some are available on the Amazon Kindle store as well):
http://manybooks.net/
http://gutenberg.org/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26node%3D154606011%26redirect%3Dtrue%26p%255F36%3D0-0&tag=ereader-2-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
I’ve compared the Nook and the Kindle, so let me tell you my findings. From the official page of B&N, here is how the Nook compares with the Kindle:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compare/
Since Barnes and Noble page is only mentioning the advantage of the Nook over the Kindle, let me try to tell more about the benefit of the Kindle 2 over the Nook:
- There is no internet browser for the Nook. So even with Wi-Fi, you can only use it to purchase book. You cannot do searching in Google, Wikipedia, check email, etc., like what you can do with the Kindle.
- The Amazon Kindle has international free 3G wireless which covers over 100 countries. So even if you’re in places like the UK or Australia, you can access the internet with the Kindle free of charge. The Nook has wireless only within the U.S., and is limited for use of buying books only
- The Kindle is available outside the U.S. (it ships to 176 countries), while the Nook only ship within the U.S. at this moment.
- The Kindle has text-to-speech function, so it can treat an ebook like audio book. This function is not present on the Nook.
- The price of ebooks for the Nook on Barnes and Nobles are more expensive than the ebooks on the Kindle. This can make quite a difference in long term, the price difference adds up as you buy more books.
- Amazon is already doing some change after the Nook is announced (still more than one month for it to be available). They dropped the price of their International Kindle even further. And they are going to release a PC software which can read their Kindle books. They also added native PDF support for their Kindle 2.
One more thing to be aware is that, at first glance you may think the Nook can read ebooks with color touch screen. But indeed the color touch screen is only a small screen beneath the greyscale eink screen, and seems it is only used to browse the cover of ebooks.
In my opinion, it is a tie between the Kindle and the Barnes and Noble. But if you may travel and you enjoy reading during your trip, you should go for the Kindle for sure. Moreover, I trust the Kindle will come up with some strategies very soon, like improving their lending book function. The Kindle is the biggest player in the ereader market right now, and I believe it will put enormous effort to hold its position. Finally, if you’re an avid reader, price of ebooks will also be a big concern, as ebooks on the Nook are more expensive.
I recommend this article as well, it is the best review on ebook readers I’ve ever read:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR3QM7LGL62MZ4X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=ereader-2-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
Just check up their homepage to see the latest price of the devices. The price is most up-to-date, and if there is any price change it will be reflected immediately on their homepage. BTW, the Nook seems to be in stock only in Jan 2010, so you’ll not be able to get it in X’mas…
Hope this helps you decide.
or do i need the nook to download them?
They have an ereader program you can use to read the books on your PC, Mac, or iPhone/iPod Touch as well. If you’re using one of those, then there’s no problem.
For other ereaders… not sure, and it depends on the format of the ebook. It looks like they use .pdb and ePub. If the book comes in .pdb, it looks like you can only read it on their supported devices since it’s a proprietary format.
If it is available in ePub, you should be able to read it on any reader that supports the ePub format, assuming any DRM they may be using doesn’t cause problems. (Sony readers support ePub, Kindle does not.)
You might want to shoot Barnes and Noble a quick email to make sure, too, since I don’t have another ereader and have never tried.
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