That’s probably the only reason why I would get one. For me, there’s a tactile pleasure in reading a book which can’t be replaced with electronics. It’s the feel of the paper, that virgin crackle when you open it for the first time, and the lovely New Book Smell.
I have to admit, though, that it would be nice not to have to pack a seperate suitcase full of books.
I just hope that it comes with memory cards so you can store more than 8 to 10, since I’m an avid re-reader, and would have a hard time deleting a book to make room for another. (Library patrons wouldn’t have as much trouble with this, I think.)
Well, they most certainly will be like an IPod and therefore will sync with your computer. Books are fairly small so you could hold a entire library in the space one DVD takes up.
In any case the solid state memory sticks have become so user friendly and large that it’s internal memory will probably be able to store on the order of 4 books without breaking a sweat, probably twice that.
I was involved with an ebook project in 2000. I was skeptical of it then and am now. I’m a techie who loves to read, you would think that I am the target market, but I’m just not interested.
I don’t think that would be a problem at all. I don’t know about the currently available readers, but a $200 iPod Nano comes with 2GB of memory. If you used that to store text, it will hold over 1000 novels. (Assuming 8 characters per word and 100,000 words per novel). And most likely you’d be able to store even more on your PC, and only transfer the ones you want to read to the e-book reader.
The only question is whether the price is low enough that the average user can buy tens or hundreds of books. And whether there’s enough of a selection that you’d want to buy that many.
I read a LOT of fanfiction, and amateur written original fiction. All I need to do is save HTML files as text. Then I save it to the right folder on the device.No mon3ey needed.
Well, the device I mentioned is backlit, and also, it works like a USB hard drive, unlike a palm, so I can download at any old computer, with out a docking station.
Another really cheap ebook reader would this, assuming you already have a Gameboy Advance, or DS.
Oh yeah, another great thing about the old eBook (and don’t think the Sony has this feature) is the backlight. You can read it in any light, even in bed at night when your SO wants to sleep.
Anybody else give this thread an initial skip due to the title? The iBook is well-known, existing product that has nothing to do in fuction with what’s being discussed in this thread, and Sony has long had a competing brand for it.
