Author: Philip Stubbs Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: [Hampshire] eReaders
I would be interested in peoples thoughts on ereaders.
Ever since I first read about eink displays, I have been fascinated.
Recently, the price has dropped to a point where I am seriously
tempted, but I have a problem.
The two that interest me the most are the Kindle from Amazon, and the
new Sony PRS-350 due out soon. They both have the ability to display
PDF's but only the Sony will work with industry standard ePub format,
avoiding the lock in to Amazon with the Kindle. This would be great,
except I have tried to run Sony's library software and Adobe's digital
editions, and failed as they are only supported on Windows and Mac.
If I can get over my dislike of being tied to Amazon, the Kindle would
work great as I understand that it does not need any sort of library
software on the computer to make purchases.
What I really want is for the book publishers to get over themselves
and remove DRM as the music industry has.
The really stupid thing is that I will probably not purchase much
content anyhow. There is more than enough PDF's and other content out
there that will fill my needs.
After all that, the short question is, does anybody use an ereader and
if so, who have you got on using it with Linux?
