Good e-reader? (not kindle, it does not support Adobe DRM)

[kolaval]

Hi
I'm looking for a locally available e-reader with good battery life and screen.
Not to concerned with wifi/3G.
Basically like a kindle, but it must support Adobe's DRM PDF and EPUB formats.

Can anyone recommend one based on experience?

 

[MiW]

http://www.comx.co.za/PER3562B-Pres...level-Information-Price-Buy-Cheap-p-61188.php

 

[kolaval]

Seems good, do you have one?

 

[MiW]

No, was wishing to buy it .

 

[ABCpt]

The kobo also looks decent.
https://shop.pnp.co.za/b2c_pnp/partner/kobo/techspecs.html

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Kalahari got one for R799, decent one and as good as any.

LINK

 

[kolaval]

The kobo also looks decent.
https://shop.pnp.co.za/b2c_pnp/partner/kobo/techspecs.html

Hah, we have n PnP hyper, lets hope I can check it out there

 

[MiW]

I got the Kobo (last year from UK) and Its OK , excluding me trying to put 8 000 books on it... didn't work , also its little slow. Batteries are OK .. Currently waiting to see if their Lit version is any good with bigger processor power to upgrade to it.

 

[Crowley]

I used a iriver story for a long time. Reads all formats with good battery life. The only negative is the lack of a backlight.

http://www.kalahari.com/electronics/iRiver-Story/4585/36971140.aspx

 

[kolaval]

Backlight is not really a feature for me. It will hurt your eyes after hours of reading.
That is my worry about the "gobii 7" Colour LCD eReader Black" from kalahari.
Then you might as well go for a tablet.

 

[Terencek]

Responses might be missing one of the OP's key requirements: that it supports Adobe PDF DRM. While pretty much all the machines above support PDF to greater or lesser extents, do they all also support PDF DRM?

Also the OP should be made aware that not all are e-ink, which is easier on the eyes -- some are plain old-fashioned backlit LCD screens, with shorter battery life and the other LCD drawbacks.

 

[Gargmel]

Get any ereader and remove drm and convert with caliber.

 

[Terencek]

That's a bit tricky for the non-technical, and Calibre often does lousy conversions of the PDFs the OP wants to use.

 

[cerebus]

PDF to ePub conversion is useless in my experience. It often just makes the pages into flat images with no formatting. I hate PDF, it's the worst ebook format out there. Not one single reader that I've found does an adequate job of rendering a PDF document smoothly, and that includes Kindle app. You're always having to pinch-zoom the pages to get them to scale the text to fit without being bunched up in the centre.

/rant

What about the Nook Simple Touch? Can one get that here? You can always import from Newegg if not.
http://libguides.library.qut.edu.au/content.php?pid=201047&sid=1680428