1 Jun
2010
1 Jun
'10
7:14 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
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