Nickname: Roger

Review: It might sound stupid, but I started to convert my books to video and playing them on my iPod. There are a few things out there that convert them to text books too. One that does a pretty good job converting them to movies one at a time is at www.watch-book.com

Date reviewed: Jan 6, 2009 6:52 PM

Nickname: jules

Review: Im an ebook publisher and im sick of all the rubbish thats going on with the ebook readers etc. One comment above talks about buying a small (small as possible) laptop and installing the digital adobe pdf reader. This is the best way until they understand that people dont just want a gadget that reads books .. they want one that also plays videos - emails - surfs - bloggs - phones and plays. we dont publish at this time in anything other than PDF and to be honest cant see that we will in thevery near future. The new Adobe digital reader is like chocolate with .pdf's and add the read aloud capability and thats all there is. E-Ink is exciting for us .. but we cant display our book covers (no colour) if you browse a list of ebooks and cant see the coloured book covers its hopelss. regards Jules

Date reviewed: Jul 2, 2008 9:40 PM

Nickname: macastronomer

Review: I received an eReader recently, and within 4 days the screen was internally cracked. I'm a systems programmer and IT technician. I've worked on many small devices with screens (Laptops, iPods, Palm Pilots) and I've never seen this happen. Nothing beyond normal use, and the screen cracked (internally mind you - no outside damage what-so-ever), causing the very left side of the screen to not work. I sent it off to Sony and they said that ANY damage to the screen is not covered. There are only two possibilities here: 1) this product is extremely fragile or 2) My device had a physical defect. In either case, I would be extremely careful with this product as normal use can lead to a $250 repair. Or better yet, purchase a different device for your digital reading.

Date reviewed: Sep 18, 2007 4:40 PM

Nickname: Tracy

Review: My father, who used to read all the time, had a stroke and can't hold a book to turn the pages. Would this work for him?

Date reviewed: Jul 22, 2007 9:00 PM

Nickname: ghostaliaz

Review: Then a fancy sony ebook reader, but I can even use this old thing to get online with the wifi card add-on to connect to my linksys wifi networked router. I have been thinking of buying more old laptops just adding more memory in them & making little Internet stations for every room on my house to do the same thing above & go online & look at my networked security cameras & my online website to watch my sat & my media dvr that I already have on a personal server website. Yeh I know this is the poor man's version, but I say it is better than nothing & anyone gets a chance to do what the haves are doing and I say there is nothing wrong with that. Have fun people & remember, let's make the future because if we wait for these old closed minded snails creating technology then we will goto our graves waiting.

Date reviewed: Jul 5, 2007 9:50 AM

Nickname: ghostaliaz

Review: People just do what I did. I just bought old 15 inch laptops and installed a very small pdf reader & chm reader & other readers of all the diffrenet formats that I enjoy. Shoot I even put a text to speech reader on the thing & added a several real sounding text to speech engines from at&t text to speech engines and now I can even listen to my books in mp3 format,well any format that I like, but I choose mp3 format & I then if I like put these mp3 books on my mp3 player and listen to them on the way to work or school or during lunch breaks or in the car & guess how much my used 233 MHZ thinkpad costed my $50.00 dollars, hey it may be a little bigger

Date reviewed: Jul 5, 2007 9:49 AM

Nickname: rock7roll

Review: I purchashed the sony and returned it. The ebook would be the best on the market if it had a backlight for night reading. The only ebook now that offers everything is the reb1100. It can only be bought from ebay. If someone would come out with a combination of the reb1100 and the looks of the sony they would have a gold mine..

Date reviewed: Jun 15, 2007 12:12 AM

Nickname: Richard

Review: I would love to have a larger device for reding that a Zire 31. But I won't purchase any device that limits me to PDF, or any proprietary format. Price is irrelevant if isn't multi-format.

Date reviewed: Feb 27, 2007 3:46 AM

Nickname: Amalthia

Review: I got a Sony Reader and I love it. It does take some work to convert my .lit, pdf and html ebooks to RTF format but it doesn't take that much time. I think the main problem Sony Reader will have is the price and that ebooks are too expensive to buy. (if you can buy a book at a store for half the price of the ebook there are problems with the system. Technically the paperback/hardcover copy of the book should be more expensive than the ebook.)

Date reviewed: Jan 24, 2007 6:16 PM

Nickname: DavidGeer

Review: Let's hope so. David Geer EBook author http://www.geercom.com

Date reviewed: Jan 21, 2007 4:18 PM