need a good ereader

OrbitalDawn said:
Epub is a format used by some of the other readers. How are you locked out? By not being able to use epub on the Kindle? Well, no device supports all formats. It takes like 5 seconds to convert epub to mobi with Calibre, though, which the Kindle reads just fine.

Try DionWired or Incredible Connection, they usually have some Kindles on display so you can play with them a bit. I can just tell you from my own experience that there's no way in hell that I'm ever using my Kindle to read pdf's again. It was just plain unpleasant.
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thanks .. will check IC and dion
 
You could always enter the competition on mybroadband today to try win a kindle paperwhite!
I have a Kindle keyboard and I put books on it I get from all over the internet. If its the wrong format just convert with Calibre which is free and easy to use.
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Trust me when I tell you that will never convince him otherwise ;) ... after many months I'm still trying to explain to him why I would buy a Kindle.
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No man Kindle is awesome. Like just now I went out by the pool for lunch and tried to read in the sun on the iPad; was very difficult. Trust me, I'd love a transreflective screen with a month of battery life. It's just that the OP wants a lot of things out of his reader that are pretty tricky to find these days; they all come in 6' form, for one thing.
 
cerebus said:
No man Kindle is awesome. Like just now I went out by the pool for lunch and tried to read in the sun on the iPad; was very difficult. Trust me, I'd love a transreflective screen with a month of battery life. It's just that the OP wants a lot of things out of his reader that are pretty tricky to find these days; they all come in 6' form, for one thing.
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I do not think I want that many things from the reader ....
basically 8" screen , be e-ink(long battery life implied) and should be good for journals/articles/pdfs
 
lucifir said:
I do not think I want that many things from the reader ....
basically 8" screen , be e-ink(long battery life implied) and should be good for journals/articles/pdfs
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As I said... those 3 attributes aren't available together in one device currently in this country. I think though if you compromise on the screen size one you should be able to get by with any e-ink reader: Kindle Paperwhite being the most obvious choice. The only caveat there would be that PDF rendering isn't going to be ideal. It's actually almost never ideal but the way e-ink renders has quite a slow refresh so if the PDF is the wrong size to fit the pane, you have to resize every time you change pages which means a painful refresh.
 
cerebus said:
As I said... those 3 attributes aren't available together in one device currently in this country. I think though if you compromise on the screen size one you should be able to get by with any e-ink reader: Kindle Paperwhite being the most obvious choice. The only caveat there would be that PDF rendering isn't going to be ideal. It's actually almost never ideal but the way e-ink renders has quite a slow refresh so if the PDF is the wrong size to fit the pane, you have to resize every time you change pages which means a painful refresh.
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I can't in good conscience tell him that PDF on 6" e-ink 'isn't ideal'. It blows, quite simply.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
I can't in good conscience tell him that PDF on 6" e-ink 'isn't ideal'. It blows, quite simply.
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Or, using the youngsters parlance, pdf on 6" inch e-ink screen sucks big time.

If that is what op wants to use it for he is going to be very disappointed. Rather save a bit more and get a tablet for that purpose
 
Kindle Paperwhite for reading and a galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for newspapers and mags.

Unfortunately you don't get those two products combined.
 
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