Comments on: What I Want In An Ereader http://www.ac4lt.org/2009/12/22/what-i-want-in-an-ereader/ Home of the Harmonious Raspberry Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Linda http://www.ac4lt.org/2009/12/22/what-i-want-in-an-ereader/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Linda Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:02:25 +0000 http://www.ac4lt.org/?p=3742#comment-89 CES has come and gone and there was nothing there to dissuade me from choosing a nook as the best compromise. I was keenly interested in the Plastic Logic Que, but not at $650 for a device in a space that is changing so rapidly. Sony's Daily Edition, the PRS-900 also is interesting except that I doubt I'd ever buy a book at Sony's store given the cost difference compared to other stores. That makes the wireless connectivity useless to me and in effect making a pretty big markup compared the the PRS-600 for an inch taller screen. On paper, the Irex DR800SG sounds great but it still has no release date and reports from CES weren't encouraging. So, looks like I'll continue to wait for a nook unless Apple manages to do something later this month with their tablet that blows me away. Even if they do, it likely won't have the great battery life of an E-Ink screen. Hopefully B&N's next nook update will fix the worst of the issues people are reporting. CES has come and gone and there was nothing there to dissuade me from choosing a nook as the best compromise. I was keenly interested in the Plastic Logic Que, but not at $650 for a device in a space that is changing so rapidly.

Sony’s Daily Edition, the PRS-900 also is interesting except that I doubt I’d ever buy a book at Sony’s store given the cost difference compared to other stores. That makes the wireless connectivity useless to me and in effect making a pretty big markup compared the the PRS-600 for an inch taller screen.

On paper, the Irex DR800SG sounds great but it still has no release date and reports from CES weren’t encouraging.

So, looks like I’ll continue to wait for a nook unless Apple manages to do something later this month with their tablet that blows me away. Even if they do, it likely won’t have the great battery life of an E-Ink screen.

Hopefully B&N’s next nook update will fix the worst of the issues people are reporting.

]]> By: Linda http://www.ac4lt.org/2009/12/22/what-i-want-in-an-ereader/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Linda Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:05:53 +0000 http://www.ac4lt.org/?p=3742#comment-68 I got a chance to play with a nook yesterday. It had been updated to the just released v1.1 firmware. While some operations were pretty sluggish (opening a book for the first time), page turns were not horribly slow. Assuming they continue to optimize the not quite ready for prime time software, it should be a good ereader platform. I got a chance to play with a nook yesterday. It had been updated to the just released v1.1 firmware. While some operations were pretty sluggish (opening a book for the first time), page turns were not horribly slow.

Assuming they continue to optimize the not quite ready for prime time software, it should be a good ereader platform.

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