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Druzyek
Joined: 02 Feb 2010
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 Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:02 am Post subject: Cheap eBook reader suggestion |
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| I saw the other post on E-Readers but I'm asking a slightly different question. I want to read eBooks but I don't want to pay 200,000+ for an expensive one. With all the cheap electronics here, is there any alternative you can recommend? I don't care if the device has a back-lit screen as long as the screen is big enough to read on. It should also be fairly portable, unlike a netbook for example. |
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egrog1717
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Nintendo DS with an R4 (or other brand) cart. will let you read .txt files...
Probably pay around 140 all said and done... Plus you can download games to play as well 
Was doing that for awhile before I picked up my reader... |
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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:32 pm Post subject: Re: Cheap eBook reader suggestion |
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| Druzyek wrote: |
| With all the cheap electronics here |
Huh? |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| egrog1717 wrote: |
Nintendo DS with an R4 (or other brand) cart. will let you read .txt files...
Probably pay around 140 all said and done... Plus you can download games to play as well
Was doing that for awhile before I picked up my reader... |
I could't imagine reading a book on my DS. 200,000 isn't that bad. Books are pretty expensive in Korea. I bet a kindle would pay itself off pretty fast. |
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egrog1717
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| rumdiary wrote: |
| egrog1717 wrote: |
Nintendo DS with an R4 (or other brand) cart. will let you read .txt files...
Probably pay around 140 all said and done... Plus you can download games to play as well
Was doing that for awhile before I picked up my reader... |
I could't imagine reading a book on my DS. 200,000 isn't that bad. Books are pretty expensive in Korea. I bet a kindle would pay itself off pretty fast. |
I didn't say it was nice, I said it was cheap  |
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Druzyek
Joined: 02 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Someone offered me a Sony PRS-500 for cheaper than a DS. I read that some people are disappointed with it because it doesn't support any non-Sony commercial eBook formats and PDFs generally don't look good on it. On the other hand, I have mostly read non-commercial eBooks up until now and very few of them are PDFs. Maybe there is a converter to make PC ready PDFs more friendly for the smaller screen?
Anyone have an opinion on this device? |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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Do you have any other devices already? An ipod touch with DropBox and Good Reader is a killer ebook reader.
Almost anything with a screen can be made to output ebooks. I read a few books on an old click wheel ipod back in the day. It was OK. |
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Druzyek
Joined: 02 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not really into gadgets. I do have an mp3 player but the screen is only 2 inches. Reading anything on it is terrible. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| Druzyek wrote: |
| I'm not really into gadgets. I do have an mp3 player but the screen is only 2 inches. Reading anything on it is terrible. |
I would recommend either an iPhone or iPod Touch. They both kill as ereaders and do a million other things well. |
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Morgen
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:29 am Post subject: |
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If you can get someone in the States or Canada to send it to you or wait a little for it to show up on eBay, the new Kobo ereader that Borders just started selling is $150. It's been on the market for a few months now in Canada at...Indigo I think.
Borders will also sell another one, starting in July, called the Libre for $120. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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If I was going to buy an Ebook reader, I would just buy the best. I do all my reading (what little of it there is these days) at home, so it doesn't really matter about portability. The best are all huge, and I don't carry a bag. Divide the price of the ebook reader by the price of the average physical book, and it probably doesn't take that long for it to pay for itself.
On a side note. The price of ebook PDFs should be less than 10% of the cost of a physical book. |
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egrog1717
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| Senior wrote: |
If I was going to buy an Ebook reader, I would just buy the best. I do all my reading (what little of it there is these days) at home, so it doesn't really matter about portability. The best are all huge, and I don't carry a bag. Divide the price of the ebook reader by the price of the average physical book, and it probably doesn't take that long for it to pay for itself.
On a side note. The price of ebook PDFs should be less than 10% of the cost of a physical book. |
Or free if you know where to look ;D
www.truly-free.org |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| egrog1717 wrote: |
| Senior wrote: |
If I was going to buy an Ebook reader, I would just buy the best. I do all my reading (what little of it there is these days) at home, so it doesn't really matter about portability. The best are all huge, and I don't carry a bag. Divide the price of the ebook reader by the price of the average physical book, and it probably doesn't take that long for it to pay for itself.
On a side note. The price of ebook PDFs should be less than 10% of the cost of a physical book. |
Or free if you know where to look ;D
www.truly-free.org |
Haha, I introduced that site to this board back before I was Senior(not saying you got the link from here). I used to download a heap of books from there and I think I have finished about two. It would piss me off if I had to pay 20 bucks for a book I might not even finish. |
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Druzyek
Joined: 02 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| If I was going to buy an Ebook reader, I would just buy the best. |
lol. Why would I be here in this thread if I was going to do that? I have never been one to pay $15 for a paperback. I usually pay about $1 in the states and $3-4 here so the difference between a $150 and $300 E-reader is a big one to me. I don't see myself reading 150 books this year to justify paying $300.
An iPod Touch? Any idea what the best prices in Seoul on one would be? |
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't buy an iTouch for reading. The screen is too small and the text will be backlit. Get a Kindle instead. |
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