Resolution > Screen Size, IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief Silver
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Resolution > Screen Size, IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief Silver
They're both 800 x 600, the screen on the touchscreen is just worse.
Relative resolution, then.
I dunno it's not actually fuzzy, the contrast is just a bit off, the background on it is a dull gray instead of the white you get on the Pocket version.
Seems to me e-readers will be a better buy in 2010 or 2011. It seems like right now they all have issues that keep them from functioning how they should (reflection on the Reader Touch and presumably the Daily, no expansion and locked down format of Kindle, slow performance of Nook).
I really want to force myself to read more, and I think having one of these would do it, but they all feel like the iPod when it had a moving click-wheel and cost $400.
I've read 5 harry potter books in the last week on the touch edition lol, I love it.
So I did end up getting the Sony Reader Pocket for Christmas and I love it. The only issues I've had thus far were issues with the PDFs themselves, not with the reader. Some PDFs work great, others lead to awkward issues with page endings, where you'll read a page and go to the next one only to find it has all of two lines on it that spilled over from the last one and have to skip forward again. Epub stuff looks fantastic on it though, and conversion from HTML, raw text or a number of formats to epub with Calibre is a snap.
The idea of paying for fake books still rubs me the wrong way, but I did want to try reading public domain stuff, classics and library loan books on it and so far I'm thrilled. I'd recommend it to anyone except the heavily visually impaired and/or old and useless. The device works best with very small text in portrait mode, if you want to use huge type the smaller screen will probably be a pain to you. The smallest text size is bigger in landscape mode and I imagine most people would be very comfortable with it!
Also, the device has a very solid feel to it despite its small size. It's very thin but the body all metal except for where the connectors are at the top and bottom. Overall, very impressive piece of tech for those that aren't necessarily sold on the "buy everything" ebook business model. Reading on an electronic device does not have to be stupid! Recommended!
I want the nook, supposed to have best PDF support out of the box (unless you go with the big ass Kindle deluxe).
The nook's sharing feature sounds awesome too. I'd be far more inclined to buy an ebook if I knew I could lend it out to people with similar devices for 14 days at a time, same length as library loans. I don't know a lot about how it works yet, but I get the feeling that it's probably limited to nook users which kind of fucks the whole thing up. Until we settle down on formats I can understand why a lot of people will keep their distance.
Yeah it's a weird feature, like the Sony sharing is only to people permanently at a limit of 4, so while it's nice you can't just share it with anyone, plus you have to do a little work such as registering their reader on your account.
As for the nook PDF support I haven't played with that. Though it was funny asking the guy at B&N what's the deal with that verse the Sony Reader and he mixed it up with the Kindle saying how books got taken from the device (Which is the same way the B&N works)