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chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

I've been finding a lot of good books as eBooks lately but hate to stick my nose in a computer any more hours a day then I already do. I want to find an eBook reader that is of reasonable size, like a paperback book to an A4, not a pocket size deal.

Any suggestions? It's got to be able to read PDFs also.

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

There aren't a lot of options. Sony has an e-book reader, Amazon has the Kindle, and what I use is my jailbroken ipod Touch. There are pros and cons to each, I suppose.

bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

I want that too. I usually convert everthing to text and read it on my nintendo DS. It works but it is not comfortable.

chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

Yeah... it seems weird there isn't one.

Something like a graphics tablet in dimensions with a display as good as a PSP. It would rock hardcore IMHO.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

People on Amazon absolutely slammed the Kindle when it first went up. Hundreds of people -- so much so that it only had a 1 star rating for the longest time. Virtually everyone said, "Gawd, this is far too expensive!"

Amazon had to go through the comments and purge virtually everything that was negative in order to get its little overpriced electronic baby above 3 stars.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Got to remember as well there is a difference between an ebook file and a PDF.

Most ebook readers won't show a PDF very well if it has graphics in it.

rubric · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Location: Pongdongfongyong

ebooks come in many shapes, sizes, and file types. Some come in PDF with graphics and audio support as well.

alpope23 · Joined: 15 Mar 2006

Just use a pda. there are reader programs for both palm and ppc models (even a pdf reader if you have good eyes and patience).

If you want ebooks for free, get mirc and log on to the undernet servers.

join channel #bookz

follow the directions for searching and downloading.

maybe 100,000 titles for downloading in many different categories.

chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

alpope23 · Joined: 15 Mar 2006

For palm, e2 or tx
For ipaq, H don't know many models by HP.

chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

OneWayTraffic · Joined: 14 Mar 2005

You could try a UMPC.

http://www.raondigital.com/fnt_english/ev01.asp

I have an Everun and I had a Vega. You get full video/mp3/Internet and older 2D games as a bonus. I use mine for reading pdf files downloaded from the Internet or when I study. It's good for that.

Then there's also the Kohjinsha's:

http://aving.net/usa/news/default.asp?mode=read&c_num=67006&C_Code=02&SP_Num=0

And others.

If you really want the full contrast of paper then you'd need to go for one of the e-Ink ones. (e.g. Sony.) But the technology isn't quite mature yet. (I first read about it in New Scientist back in 2000.) It's been a while developing.

Shimokitazawa · Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Location: Seoul

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

Put custom firmware on your PSP then download Bookr. That is what I use and it is pretty good. TXT files are absolutely perfect and PDFs are about 75% readable. Pictures come out well. I have an economics text book on there and all the graphs and tables come out fine.

If you already have the PSP why buy something else? There is another program that converts TXT files to JPG which I used before I got the custom firmware. I can't remember it's name though.

Shimokitazawa · Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Location: Seoul

rusty,

i downloaded mIRC. but when i can't find the channel #bookz. is that where you have your textbook?

I'd like to access these books but even after looking at google and trying to figure it is confusing.

i found a video on youtube that showed how to download. however the conmputer screen on youtube and what i saw on mIRC here didn't jive. any tips?