Be Book

[Nymawae]

I've had the Sony one since christmas and I like it... a lot.

It's not a replacement for treasured books that I read again and again, they will always be paper for me. But for day to day reading it'd really a nice piece of kit.

Best (only?) place to download the sony format in the UK is Waterstones who have a good selevtion that is growing. Other than that the Sony supports EPub, Adobe PDF, RTF, TXT, BBeB and Microsoft Word as well as sound in MP3 and AAC formats.

I like it and being eink it's actually readable in sunlight unlike lcd.

It's not a replacement for a book, but if you fancy a gadget that you can use on a regular basis i'd recommend it.

 

[Corwin]

Currently using my Archos 7 as a PDF reader, it's good and all but the battery drain is ridiculous, as you're constantly scrolling the touch screen which is on a full white page, just wish they'd release an e-ink addon for it or something.

 

[Gottaa]

I looked at the Sony e-reader and it didn't have the sizing options that I needed to meet my aim of reading without putting my glasses on. If I'm going to put my glasses on, I might as well get a normal book.

I'll get one once the scaling options (which should be so simple to implement) have a greater choice

 

[StGeorge]

Gottaa, I've had the Cybook for a while now and the font sizing is good. I took a couple of pictures, the quality is shite but you'll get the idea
Pic here
And here
The biggest thing with text that big is the fact that it takes about 2.5 secs to turn the page and you'll be doing it a lot at the largest font size.

/edit The text on that page looks a bit porno but it it's from one of the Dark Tower books by Stephen King - honest!!

 

[Gottaa]

Now that's a much better selection of fonts, with the 2.5 seconds to turn the page normal though ? seems pretty slow but then I never timed the Sony reader when I played around with it the flash effect that all book readers seem to have was noticable

 

[StGeorge]

The flash effect is where it clears the page before writing the next one. You can switch that off on the Cybook so that it updates quicker but when I tried that it sometimes leaves bits of the old page displayed.