Choosing a reader for a girl

Konstantin Frolov2011-01-12 08:14:28

Electronic books

Konstantin Frolov, 2011-01-12 08:14:28

One beautiful girl has a DR soon.
Her boyfriend gave her a choice... The choice of the reading room she wants to buy.
She asked me for advice, but I've never been interested in e-ink readers :(

Tell me, what to choose if there is a Kindle and Sony PRS-650 to choose from now?
Support for fb2 is very desirable, straight from the nose.

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Rbox, 2011-01-12
@Rbox

I would take Kindle, and with 3G. Advantages:
— free internet everywhere and always.
— price
— active community. There is already a jailbreak and Russification and other goodies.
I can’t say anything about Sonya, but the Kindle pluses are important to me and outweigh everything else.
The issue with delivery to Russia is solved through shipito and +30$ to the price.
Another iPad is a good thing, of course. But... It's not e-ink - it's still not a reader, it has a different purpose. And other operating time without recharging. But the possibilities, frankly, are much better than those of any reader.

Puma Thailand, 2011-01-12
@opium

Personally, I have all the girls dragging from ipad, and galaxy tab.
The main advantage of the galaxy is its size, it fits into a small bag or a large pocket, which cannot be said about the ipad.

la0, 2011-01-12
@la0

pocketbook 301 is a great book.

Roman Gogolev, 2011-01-12
@romka777

Both readers do not support fb2.

gjf, 2011-01-12
@gjf

The question was raised hundreds of times, a lot of posts, comparisons and comments. Yes, and in Q&A there was almost a similar discussion recently .
I don’t know how the choice of ebook affects the M or F field, but IMHO the fb2 support is quite critical, because I found fiction mainly in this format and txt. pdf scans were of disgusting quality and size. We are not talking about djvu, although I have not seen normal (I emphasize - just normal ) support for this format from anyone. Whatever is stated there. I mean scan-to-image, without an OCR layer (and there are quite a few of them).
If the author's question is an edge - this or that, I would choose the Sony PRS-650. Although I would not choose either one or the other, but I am not a girl :)

cst, 2011-01-12
@cst

I gave a PRS505 to a friend and a PDF printer about 3 years ago, any source is printed in pdf and uploaded to her personally. Nirazu did not hear dissatisfaction / questions.

asm0dey, 2011-01-12
@asm0dey

PocketBook Pro 602.
Its super-fast paging function steers and pedals stubbornly
Excellent paper, dictionary, for fb2 - everything that is invented works - Text-to-speech, a lot of fonts (you can install your own, and it's easy), a lot of font sizes, automatic screen flipping, automatic and correct hyphenation, notes, table of contents, image support…

igolovin, 2011-01-12
@igolovin

I have a pocketbook 301. Supports fb2. Happy with the book. Of course, the presence of 3G would be generally chic.
It was correctly said earlier that an e-ink reader and tablets are completely different things.

DorBer, 2011-01-12
@DorBer

The Qumo Colibri lies well in the hands.
The chef bought an iReader for his wife, put money on the balance sheet and does not bother with downloading books.

Konstantin Kitmanov, 2011-01-12
@k12th

On NG I gave my girlfriend a PocketBook Pro 602. Not big and not small, very beautiful in a white case, supports fb2. True, we had a special requirement: the presence of built-in dictionaries is critical.