Comments on: 2008 Holiday EBook Reading Buying Guide, Part II

By: Stumbling Over Chaos :: Contests and books and linkiness, oh my! (and abs, of course – duh)

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:05:49 +0000

[...] nicer (plus the battery life on an eInk device is amazing). What do you smartphone owners think? Here’s the Dear Author guide to using smartphones and netbooks to read ebooks – rumor has it the guide will be updated [...]

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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:01:28 +0000

[...] that the future of reading is the smartphone. We’ve blogged about this back in 2008 and have a little guide for different smartphones and multifunction devices on the market. We’ll have to update [...]

By: Romance Vagabonds » Blog Archive » I Heart My Kindle

Romance Vagabonds » Blog Archive » I Heart My Kindle — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:44:00 +0000

[...] If you’re interested in learning more about the Kindle and other ereaders, Dear Author has posted their annual holiday ereader buying guides: Part 1 and Part 2. [...]

By: Jack Smith

Jack Smith — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:39:35 +0000

Yes, There are conversion issues with Kindle and Sony reader. But i being an author prefer ebookconversion.com which provides me with 100% accurate ebooks for my scanned documents and PDF's.

By: KB

KB — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:39:18 +0000

I ended up getting the iphone and I love it a lot more than I thought I would. I tried Stanza and ebookreader and they were ok, but I finally bought Bookshelf and it reads my mobipocket books just fine. Maybe not the drm’d ones, I might not have tried any of those yet, but they are a much smaller percentage of my library, since I usually buy straight from the epublisher. Now I’m going to go play on the Dear Author bookshelf :)

By: Evecho

Evecho — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:10:10 +0000

A cheaper Android phone from Aust.
http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/android-powered-kogan-agora-pro-mobile-phone/

At the rate apps are appearing for the Iphone, I think the Iphone would be my choice too.

By: TerryS

TerryS — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:25:40 +0000

I saw this Consumer Reports comparison of Netbooks today. Here is the link in case anyone is interested:

http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/173/six-windows-netbooks-rated/

Unfortunately, I didn’t see any mention of the battery cell size mentioned. The battery longevity would really be affected by whether a 3 cell or 6 cell battery was used in the comparison. I have an MSI Wind with a 6 cell battery and 5.5 hours of battery time.

By: gwen hayes

gwen hayes — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:42:28 +0000

Would love easier conversion. *sigh* Lately when I use convert lit gui, I find that many new books convert into a bajillion html files instead of one.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:59:27 +0000

“I am over the moon with my Palm Centro”

Me too! It’s less expensive than a lot of other smart phones (depending on who your cell phone carrier is, of course. Mine’s through Verizon and was $99.00 before discount.) It runs on Palm OS and it can run Mobipocket as well as display unsecured PDF files. It’s a touch screen and has a full keyboard as well. The screen IS small, but you can enlarge the type in most programs, and XandraG’s right – it doesn’t seem small when you’re reading. You can dim the backlight to save battery power too. And I find a dim backlight is easier on the eyes in the dark.

By: XandraG

XandraG — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:06:16 +0000

I am over the moon with my Palm Centro and eReader formats. The eReader software is wonderful, and the Centro’s screen, though it appears small, really isn’t because of the sheer clarity and crispness. There’s even a PalmPDF app that will read unsecured PDFs (I will never, ever, EVER buy an Adobe Digital Editions ebook again, even if Adobe does come out with something functional for Linux, because they’ve so recently slapped us all in the face by declaring that they won’t be bothered to develop an Acrobat that can read ‘em for Linux. Consequently, I will not be burdening them with my business because they so obviously don’t want it).

I’m not crazy about the Palm rendering of the PDFs, but they do in a pinch. My Ipod Touch does fine with ‘em, though, although I’d really like an app that could read them without having to swipe. I’d love to tap the screen and page down.

My Centro also lasts quite a long time on battery when I’m reading – I got at least six hours out of mine on a single battery charge.