Amazon Kindle

[lulzfish]

It has a few more features than a paper book, but not nearly enough to make it worth the cost.


Like, there's a relatively full-featured web browser, but no text editor.


Here I am, editing text in the browser... why can't I also do this offline?


And there does not appear to be a way to delete files from it, without connecting to a PC. It uses Mass Storage, so KDE recognized it,but it's still stupid.


Has anybody else used one? I think it could be interesting if the software wasn't such crap, sadly Amazon probably doesn't care about opening it up or anything. The screen is cool, even with the slow refresh rate and being monochrome.

 

[Caine]

Haven't used the kindle myself. A colleague of mine owns an Irex Illiad which is an open device running a full Linux distro like our Pandora.


Unfortunately, the device was insanely expensive (like 600-800 euros or something like that) and the company died. I kinda liked that one though.


I'm still waiting for a nice open ebook reader to cross my path, but so far I've not been looking for it very actively.

 

[Asiyura]

Just took a look on the Irex Iliad, it's a pity they were so expensive and that they stopped the production!


It look like a fine piece of hardware, pretty good grayscale screen, wired and wireless network, fast cpu and various memory type supported.

 

[elwing]

I recently received a nook, and it's great, the price by itself is quite low. it's great to read book, much better than any LCD device can get... seen the price of ebup it might look like it's not worthing the price, but an overlooked fact is that books are quite old, and lot of classics are no free of right and can be found for free... just downloaded 1600 french books for free and legally... that's quite great... and worthing every penny in my opinion.

 

[second exodous]

I got a nook over a tablet just for the reason all I want to do on a reading device is read. I've had my nook for a while now and yesterday I went to Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) and downloaded ghost stories form M.R. James and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, two authors I had previously never heard of and am loving it! They were free for one thing but being able to find them the second I heard about them and the ability to read them in a book format is just amazing! Reading these is much better than seeing them acted out on TV.


Also, the easiest way to get content on your e-reader is use the free and open source program Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/). Just fire it up, plug in you device(it lists tons of devices, not just the popular ones) and move e-books you've obtained off the web onto the device. I use Linux and it makes the entire e-book experience much better, I don't even know if whatever B&N has for windows works better, Calibre works for Linux, windows, and OSX.


E-readers is one advancement of technology that I have to say is right on. They lack color but that will be resolved in the future, I'm counting on reading my comic collection on a color one.