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Nook, Kindle or Whatever Android

Enoff

Enoff

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Well I was given a "nook" as a gift. Sort of a Kindle clone but ultimately an Android run piece of hardware. Its very cool, limited but makes you pause thinking were these things are going to take off to be as interfaces for all kinds of everyday tasks.

pardon I guess I spelled Kindle wrong in my title, "gasp"
 
Got the original Sony eBook years ago and recently upgraded to the Sony Touch screen eBook last Father's Day(gift from my wife). Love the thing. I travel quite a bit and the ability to have a couple hundred books at my finger tips is alot better then carrying around 5-6 paperbacks and having to buy new or reread old when you run through them.
 
I've got the whole of the JTAS and CT CDroms, plus the GDW MT books from DTRPG, on my Sony Touch (PRS600). (On an SD card in it, actually, but close enough.)

While I want an iPad, it won't replace the Sony. It'll replace the laptop for on the go computing.

I look forward to Sony's rumored 9x12" reader (Screen supposed to by 8.5x11"...)
 
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Yes I think I would love to have the ipad.

Although from reading. the newest "nook" is totally color but I don't know if that means the whole screen is a touch screen.

I had to get used to the "nook" i have where the top screen is almost a b&w lcd with a color android touch screen at the bottom.

Nice to have a lot of "traveller" material in EPUD format, seems to be the format of choice right now.
 
Enoff said:
Yes I think I would love to have the ipad.

Although from reading. the newest "nook" is totally color but I don't know if that means the whole screen is a touch screen.

I had to get used to the "nook" i have where the top screen is almost a b&w lcd with a color android touch screen at the bottom.

Nice to have a lot of "traveller" material in EPUD format, seems to be the format of choice right now.
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The newest nook is a backlit color IPS LCD screen, and not eInk... meaning it's lost the advantage that the eInk screens have in daylight visibility, or when wearing polarized lenses. It's full screen touch screen, too.

They're trying to get a name for color ahead of the expected in 2011 color eInk displays. And LCD is cheaper than eInk at the moment.
 
I've put all my Traveller PDF's from the FFW discs and the current MGT offerings onto my i-pad and its awesome. Invaluable for having everything at my fingertips.
 
Andrew Boulton said:
I love my Kindle.

IKWYM, but then it'd be too big and heavy.
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Not really. The kindle might, they seem to weigh more, plus have the keyboard, which adds additional weight.

Sony's strongly rumored* Letter size should weigh about 4x what the 600 does, and have a similar screen quality and features. Thickness isn't changing, and a significant chunk of the components don't get replicated, making up for the about 5x screen area.

And it will still be lighter than the books at church... Which I can get in PDF... and the buffy RPG book stack. Or about the same as the MGT hardcover.

*read as: leaked by one of their engineers
 
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I think I would easily slip into game playing mode and not read if it was an all color touch screen.

I am having fun looking at programs like Adobe inDesign to reformat some of my gaming books into .EPUB format. Seems the best way to display text on these things.

I have tried some pdf convertors to .EPUB but they still need a lot of editing.

Sigil, a free program seems to be a great program once the file is in .EPUB format.
 
I've got an iPad that I'm putting Traveller PDF's on as well as the Kindle and Nook apps and it works great . Velocity Micro has a pad called the Cruz that is in 5" and 7" versions. The Cruz runs Android 2.2 so you could have a PDF reader, plus the Nook and Kindle readers on it.

The Kindle and Nook apps work well on the iPhone and iPod Touch and I'm often reading on my touch while standing in line or other waiting times.

It never fails to amaze me when I'm using my iPod or iPad. This stuff was science fiction when I was growing up. Now I'm using it
 
I have the Kindle DX. It is close but not quite good enough. I want a screen that is 8.5” by 11”. I like the ePaper for the battery life. I only need to charge it once a week. Memory is another important thing as I do not purchase paper books any more. I have been purchasing PDFs for years now and have many gigs of books. I hate having to limit what I put on it. :(

Aramis, did they mention any guestimate on memory size for that rumored Sony reader?
 
I want one that retracts into two side bars like a scroll. With stabilisers to make it rigid when extended. In A4 size, expandable to A3. When are we getting one of those?
 
Space Hamster said:
I have the Kindle DX. It is close but not quite good enough. I want a screen that is 8.5” by 11”. I like the ePaper for the battery life. I only need to charge it once a week. Memory is another important thing as I do not purchase paper books any more. I have been purchasing PDFs for years now and have many gigs of books. I hate having to limit what I put on it. :(

Aramis, did they mention any guestimate on memory size for that rumored Sony reader?
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No, but it's likely to exceed the Daily Edition:
• Internal Memory: 512MB, 380MB accessible
• Expanded Memory: Support for Sony Memory Stick Pro DUO and SDHC
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Note that both the Memory Stick Pro slot and the SDHC slot will read 32Gig memory each.
 
aramis said:
No, but it's likely to exceed the Daily Edition:
• Internal Memory: 512MB, 380MB accessible
• Expanded Memory: Support for Sony Memory Stick Pro DUO and SDHC
​

Note that both the Memory Stick Pro slot and the SDHC slot will read 32Gig memory each.
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A memory slot would be good as I can keep the hole library with me at all times. The Kindle is limited on memory and does not have expantion slots.
 
Space Hamster said:
A memory slot would be good as I can keep the hole library with me at all times. The Kindle is limited on memory and does not have expantion slots.
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Sony makes a good machine. While the MT PDFs are a bit hard to read, they are legible on the 600. On a full size, they'd be great. Same for the MGT PDFs (excepting T&G, which put all the graphics in at roughly 75 DPI raster... rather than as vector images, and renders them useless.)

the CT LBB's look great. Sure 75% size, but very readable.
 
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