1 Jun
2010
1 Jun
'10
7:23 p.m.
At 10:14 PM -0400 6/1/10, Keith wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
I was under the impression that the slowness in turning pages was due
to the design of the display rather than the speed of the processor.
I'm still looking for something to replace my Sony Clie as an eBook
reader, and have yet to find anything.
Zane
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I've tried a Sony eBook Reader, and while
it's okay for ebooks, I was less
than impressed with it for PDF's. I would expect simular results from other
such products due to the design of the display.
I thought the Sony reader was pretty much crap. Its interface is
slow, and the machine is obviously underpowered for what it needs to
do. Imagine pushing a button, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting
for something to happen -- it's one of these things where you push
it again because you think it didn't register the first time. Then
it queues the push and activates the next press of the button.
The screen, for grayscale, is fairly readable, easy on the eyes, and
I'm sure battery life is impressive. Weight seemed ok.
While I didn't play with it extensively, it seems to be yet another
walled garden approach. You have to have the right firmware on it,
the matching desktop software, and DRM abound to make sure these
criminal customers pay up.
If I purchased one, I'd return it pretty quickly.
Keith