Re: eBook Readers

["Richard Challis" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good point about the DRM,

When I was looking at eBooks, that was one thing that put me right off.

Sony has their own DRM, as well as several other manufactures. So if I
change make of eBook then the books for the old reader are useless unless I
keep within the same manufacturer (in theory)

So at the moment, unless there is a common format, I'm not interested.

Pity really, as the amount of books I have at home is really bugging my
other half and I am still buying more.

But one good thing about a nice solid paper based book - I don't cause
grie=
f
with it at airport security and I dont' have to shut it down during the
tak=
e
off and landing!

Please correct me about the DRM, I would love to at least give this tech a
go.

Cheers

Rich

2008/11/17 Ben McCormack <yahoogroup@xxxxxxx>

> I was just looking at this over the weekend.
>
> John Lewis and one of the other book shops have the =A3199 Sony reader
> in stock and for you to 'play' with.
>
> Here are some of the stuff I found
>
> http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/sony-reader-review.ars
> http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
> http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3D15202
> http://www.mobiletechreview.com/gadgets/Sony-Reader-PRS-505.htm
>
> Looks like there is not yet one standard and also DRM stuff around.
>
> Regards
> Ben
>
>
> On 16 Nov 2008, at  19:58, darren_karp2001 wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm interested in buying an ebook reader. Does anyone have any
> > recommendations or are they a waste of money?
> >
> > I do realise that they cannot be used in the dark as they have no
> > backlight (shame!).
> >
> > TIA
> > Darren
> >
> >
> >
>
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