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The lowdown on the eReader

Posted at Tuesday 30 Mar by Jacinda Woodhead.

Roughly 5 million eReaders were sold around the world in 2009. For the uninitiated, the world of the eReader can be positively perplexing, brimming with assumed knowledge.

The Kindle is possibly the most recognised reader, with the much talked about but as yet unreleased iPad a close second. Then again, a quick Google search reveals there are hundreds of eReaders available: the Onyx Boox 60, the nook, the Pocketbook 302, the Cybook Opus, the Amazon Kindle DX, the Kindle 2, the eSlick Reader, the Cybook Gen 3, the Librie – you get the general idea.

So it seems some elucidation is in order.

What is this eReader I’ve been hearing so much about and will it bring meaning to my life?

I may be stating the obvious, but an eReader is a device designed to read digital books and publications, or digital texts, more commonly referred to as eBooks.

E-readers are portable, low-power, high-resolution devices specifically designed to display digital versions of written material from books, magazines, newspapers, and other printed sources. Some e-readers also provide access to electronic documents like blogs, websites, news feeds, and the like.

Most eReaders use eInk in a number of shades of grey and a digital page will typically resemble a printed page. eInk only uses the battery when the reader turns pages, which is why everyone’s always praising the battery-life of the eReader.

Other devices, like netbooks and iPhones, can be used to read eBooks, but they’re not designed specifically for this purpose. eReaders, on the other hand, allow the storing of an entire library (a small library, that is), resizing of text, annotations and more control over the reading environment and experience.

While I won’t promise it will bring meaning to your life, this Kindle convert will:


Some major eReader contenders

The soon-to-be-released Kobo eReader

Price: US $149

Pros

  • One of the cheaper readers on the market, already touted as the ‘Kindle killer’ (post-introduction of the iPad because who’s going to pay so much for the Kindle when they can get the iPad? More on this below.)
  • Value for money
  • Access to the Kobo book store, offering more than 2 million titles
  • Allows the transfer of titles across devices (iPhone, Android, etc)
  • Supports ePub, PDF and Abode DRM support
  • Has a battery life of two weeks

Cons

  • No keyboard
  • No wireless so books have to be transferred via USB
  • Limited functions
  • Small screen
  • Minimum features
  • Unlikely to offer 2 million titles to Australian users

The Kobo eReader will only be available for a limited period as Kobo’s focus is their Platform, which they hope will be adopted by other eReaders, as is the case with Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Other readers around this price include theSony Reader Pocket Edition, the Jetbook Lite, the Aluratek Libre eReader and the Copia Tidal


The currently dominant Kindle 2

Price: US $259

Pros

  • Free internet access (to Wikipedia and the Amazon store in Australia)
  • Read-to-me feature
  • Option of subscribing to blogs, newspapers and magazines
  • 450,000 titles available
  • Has a nice reading screen
  • Delivers books in under 60 seconds
  • 3G wireless
  • Stores up to 1500 books

Cons

  • Not as attractive as the iPhone
  • No colour
  • Expensive
  • The battery isn’t replaceable
  • Range of books, newspapers and magazines available in Australia is limited
  • Amazon keeps track of what books you read and what sites you visit (though this is likely to be the same with Kobo)

Other readers around this price include the nook, the Bebook 1, the Samsung E6 , the Onyx Boox and the Foxit eSlick


The to-be-launched-next-week iPad

Price: US $499

The iPad is more a media-consumption device than eReader, but the Kindle app and inbuilt iBooks app mean that one of the major uses of the iPad will be as a reading device.

Pros

  • Multi-touch screen
  • Onscreen keyboard
  • Email
  • iBooks app
  • LED-backlit screen
  • Colour
  • Runs third-party apps like the iPhone
  • Minimum 16GB memory
  • Weighs 1.5 pounds

Cons

  • Expensive
  • Unable to run two apps at the same time
  • 3G coverage costs an additional US$129 (plus monthly usage)
  • No camera
  • In-built battery, which is a major con

Existing tablets include the Entourage Edge, the Netronix E90600 Reader, the Skiff Reader and the Intel Reader


Wrapping up

Feel free to leave your eReader anecdotes and grudges below. Meanwhile, I might take some time out with my trusty paperback so I can digest all these pros and cons.

*If you’re an arty type keen on prolonging the life of your reader, you may want to consider making a cover for your eReader

**This post was made by possible by the excellent research compiled over at the iReader Review


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One of the good things about ereaders is that rarer/out of print books can make a come back. Spinifex's re-release of Remember the Tarantella by Finola Moorhead is a case in point. Just got this press release today - 'Finola Moorhead's book, a feminist classic, has been long out of print. . . Director Susan Hawthorne said of the new release: “We wanted this book to be our lead eBook title for books that have been out of print and unavailable. Remember the Tarantella will be the first in our program of re-release of feminist classics as eBooks.”

I have an iriver story. I have found it to be an excellent device, as well as saving space at home, and in my bag. Go to Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/
for non-DRM copies of classics as well as out of copyright books ;) be sure to get the epub format where you can as it is the easiest to manipulate on your reader! there is plenty of free and legal reading material to enjoy if you know where to look

I was given a Kindle as a gift a couple of days ago. Most of its design flaws are a result of either (a) Corporate greed, or (b) Poor design.
The downside: 1) It commits me to always having a Kindle if I want to keep the books that I have bought. When my Kindle dies I'll have to buy another in order to be able to access my library. In other words the corporation owns my library. 2) I can't share books the way I can share a paperback with someone. 3) The reading interface isn't perfect by a long shot. When the page 'turns' it blacks out for a second and then rearranges itself into the new text. Slightly disorienting. 4) I can put my own PDF files on the Kindle but can't read them, because the KIndle won't allow me to resize text as it does with Kindle eBooks. 5) Content is still limited. There are 360,000 books at the Kindle shop but a significant number of them, to judge from my browsings are multiple editions of the same books. What's left is very hit and miss. You can get porn and holocaust-deniers in droves, but you can't get Italo Calvino. 6) A book with images may not necassarily display the images. A philosophy text I bought has a few photos in it. Where they should be is the statement: 'Please refer to the print edition of this book for this image.'
Positives: 1) I'm going away from home for a week soon and it will be great to able to take a pile of books with me without having the weight and bulk to carry. 2) I can buy most books much, sometimes very much, cheaper than I can get them as hardcopies. 3) the free wireless connection to Amazon means I can browse and shop in the wee hours of the morning should i wish to do so.
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Actually Entourage Edge is not really a tablet, more of a tablet-ereader hibrid ("dualbook" as they call it) and it would be the ideal device for college purposes. It costs the same as the iPad but without the hype, so unfortunately I can't see it becoming mainstream in the near future.

I have an Iriver which I like, indeed you can read all the classics again and they are free. Got my Iriver with 150 free books from Ereadersrus on http://ereadersrus.com.au.
Bought a nice cover and screen protector as well.
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The way I see it is that eReaders won't ever replace books, but is a useful accompaniment. If I'm on a train journey, I usually read a proper book as there's still nothing that beats the look and feel of a proper book. If I'm away for a few days or longer I usually read my Kindle. The reason being is that instead of packing 3 or 4 books I can just take one device and have all the books I need, plus I can also download any books I fancy on the fly.

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