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| Re: Merry/Happy Christmas and A Christmas Story [message #24636 is a reply to message #24635 ] |
Fri, 25 December 2009 20:07   |
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Yay all around! Looks like you had a lovely Christmas. (And a great someday ereader!)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Merry/Happy Christmas and A Christmas Story [message #24666 is a reply to message #24661 ] |
Sat, 26 December 2009 18:36 |
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| Robin wrote on Sat, 26 December 2009 15:11 |
Yes. I'm now OFFICIALLY INTERESTED IN ANYONE'S EXPERIENCE of ereaders. Mainly I just want the PINK one. (Yes. Sony.)
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Keep in mind that you can get skins for most major brands, so you're not limited to how they come. The skins are just stickers. They come in all different colors and pictures. I can rustle you up a link if you want one.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Merry/Happy Christmas and A Christmas Story [message #24688 is a reply to message #24661 ] |
Sun, 27 December 2009 12:08 |
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I have a Cybook Gen 3 from Bookeen (French company). I am glad I got it but not sure I would get it again.
Pros: It is not tied to any particular content distributor. I admit, I am suspicious of the corporate maotives of Amazon with its Kindle and B&N with its Nook. So far, the Kindle can have any e-book loaded on, slightly less conveniently or slightly more expensively (small e-mailing fee) than their own, but the system seems ripe for monopolistic exploitation. And the bizarre 1984 episode would worry me, if I had one.
pro/con: it has no network-accessing capability. THis is fine with me, downloading to the computer and shooting files across to the reader is easy. Some people really like getting a book absolutely INSTANTLY though. But again, who owns the book? 1984, again.
Con: I have learned that I HATE those frelling four-way control buttons! Some miniaturization geek invented them, and all the designers and marketers said, "Oh, that is so cool," and they are EVERYWHERE, and nobody bothered to test to see if anyone older than a nimble-fingered twenty-something could operate them satisfactorily. I can deal on my camera and phone, where they are only needed sometimes. But that blasted uncooperative thing is the only way to turn pages on the Cybook, and that's not good.
Also it only comes in black 
The Mobile Read Forum has lots of info.
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| Re: Merry/Happy Christmas and A Christmas Story [message #24728 is a reply to message #24716 ] |
Sun, 27 December 2009 20:43 |
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Kindle is the best known because it was introduced by the 800-pound gorilla of online marketing. And any time you go to Amazon for anything, the very first thing you see is a Kindle ad.
I'm not saying it's not an excellent device; I believe it's pretty good. I would just prefer on principle to have one where the device and the content are from separate corporate entities.
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| Re: Merry/Happy Christmas and A Christmas Story [message #24946 is a reply to message #24688 ] |
Sun, 03 January 2010 15:01 |
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 Mrs Redboots
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Registered: October 2008
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| abigailmm wrote on Sun, 27 December 2009 17:08 |
The Mobile Read Forum has lots of info.
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Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! I have a Bookeen, too, and it was a bit dead - but a visit to the Mobile Read forum showed me there was a new firmware upgrade for it, which I applied - and it's fixed it! It's even better than it was before it died. What's more, the 2.0 upgrade takes epub books - and with 2 different upgrades, if it blows again (I hope it won't), I can fix it again! So thanks! I love my Bookeen, I really do!
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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