So -- do you read on the road -- electronically?

[kinzel]

Once upon a time lots of people were reading on their Palms, on their laptops, on their Rocket Ebook readers... but somehow the readers started locking folks out...

Here's a group trying to have a generic ebook reader built that will do what ebook readers should: let you read the public, non-proprietary formats favored by most of the ebook reading public.

Comment here if you like, but it might be better to comment there and get your name on their list. And take this news elsewhere -- are you listening, John Scalzi?

Comments

[scalzi.livejournal.com]

I am never not listening.

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Okay, now you're really scaring me.

[sraun]

I should comment there - my problem right now is that their probably price is still outside my affordability range by a fair margin. :-(

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Double the size and I'll be interested, the screen is just too small as far as I'm concerned, it's the problem with all of them. Paperbacks are about the right size for reading in bed...

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

But if you make the screen larger, you make the device less portable. 6" diagonal works out to 4.8" x 3.6". I drew a rectangle in those dimensions on a piece of paper to check it out, and I have to conclude that it's really not that bad. A bit smaller than a paperback book, but not too much so. Though I don't have any problems reading books off my PDA, when it comes to that.

The big showstopper for me will be the price. If it were $200 or less, it would be a better option. But I'm personally hoping that the OLPC laptops will eventually make their way to the public in some form for $200, and in that case I'd definitely get one of those for my ebook reading needs instead.

I'd cheerfully maim for a decent eBook reader

[bonkabonka.livejournal.com]

I use a Fujitsu P7000 series ultra-portable laptop and Mobipocket (boo, hiss) for my "solution". It's not optimal but works well enough that I put up with its shortcomings (middling battery life, noise and heat).

At work, we have a fairly comprehensive collection of eBook tech and none of the devices work as well as my little laptop. The Sony PRS-500 reader comes close, but the folks who developed its interface were dropped on their heads as children or something. Notably, if you don't bookmark what page you were on prior to closing the cover, you'll reopen the reader to a random page. And navigating around is painful. A pageflip cycles the entire page to black and then draws the next page - a process that takes just over a second (doesn't sound too bad, but is REALLY annoying if you're searching through the book to find where you left off). The reader also wants to be an MP3 player and fails at that too (noisy amplifier). It also wants some sort of frontlight so you can read it in bed (or on the plane).

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

I'm quite happy w/my Dell Axim X51. I can play games on it. It can hold a dozen books in its memory and still be small enough to fit into a pocket! It's lovely.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I have already signed up as being interested. The price reminds me of my first TI calculator, my first PalmPilot, and so on. I expect if the market opens up, the prices will drop but it will be a few years. I'm also a bit hesitant about some of the remarks I've read on page flipping. Still, I am interested. I use my Sony Clie daily, it is always in my pocket -- and nowadays it has the Liaden books on it, so it is better than ever. But . . .

I do expect that a larger reading screen would be nice. We use notebooks and books for somewhat different purposes - you write in one, while you read from the other. Similarly, I suspect having a reading tablet that is easily portable will change how we use the computing resources.

Sprint PPC

[eshivak.livejournal.com]

I'm using my Sprint PocketPC with Microsoft Reader or Word. Between the two I'm able to read most of what I want and I find it comfortable to use in bed or chair or train. Since it's also an MP3 player AND my phone... It's perfect for me.

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Some of us still read on our PDAs. Heck, I do readings at cons off of my PDA!

Yeah, yeah, I've the bitch about screen size, but I don't buy it.

The big problem I see for this push is that having a dedicated ebook reader means just another damn device for me to carry around. I already resent having to carry both a PDA and a cellphone (and yes, I know there are combos, but my cell provider only supports the crappy ones -- hmm, might be time to change providers).

Higher contrast.

[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

I use my Tungsten T5, and my husband a Sony Clie. The low contrast of the greyscale is pretty much a dealbreaker for my husband who is lowvision. I'd like something about 20-30% larger than the T5, but like the fact that I carry my calendar, music, games, etc on it (a 1GB and a 2GB card, plus the WI-FI card. I will replace it with a T|X probably

I also put TV episodes, movies etc on the card.

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