[Rhodes22-list] Kindle versus Sony Touch Reader, Experience?

[Ben Schultz]

I've been watching the e-reader market for a while, looking for my dream
gadget.  We're not quite there, but we're getting close.  I don't have a
permanent desk.  I work at client A's office one day, client B's the next,
from the boat occasionally, or from my dining room table if it's raining.
Right now, I'm "working" from the atrium of a hotel in the French Quarter
(pic attached).

The drawback is that I lug around a zillion-pound bag full of technical
books, printed PDFs, and magazines.  I'd like to get an e-reader that would
hold them all, give me a way to organize them, search indexes across
multiple sources, be lightweight, have a sharp easy to read screen (and it's
got to be in color if I'm going to read magazines there), automatically load
new issues of magazines and newspapers as they are published, and have
enough battery to go at least 10 hours between charges.  

A bright, sharp color screen is probably the biggest holdup.  There's a new
one out in Japan that supposedly fits the bill, but it's still around $1000,
and set up for Japanese content (I would assume).

The application for us would be great -- Coast Pilots with the bridge
schedules and VHF channels (I refer to that in a PDF on my phone now), the
detailed instruction doc for raising and lowering our masts, Chapmans (like
John mentioned) to see if that boat's odd light pattern means "Vessel
engaged in mine sweeping" (my favorite of the light patterns -- get the heck
away from that one if you see it in your local lake or bay), not to mention
something for pleasure reading while you wait for your hung-over admiral to
wake up and be ready to set sail after a night at anchor.


-----Original Message-----
From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Arthur H. Czerwonky
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 22:08
To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Kindle versus Sony Touch Reader, Experience?

The Kindle's sharper contrast is a known advantage in writeups.  The Sony
screen apparently also has bad reflection problems which are unique to the
Touch model.

Art


-----Original Message-----
>From: BenCittadino <bencittadino at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 17, 2009 2:27 PM
>To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Kindle versus Sony Touch Reader, Experience?
>
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>My sister uses an original Kindle and what impressed me was the fact that
the
>contrast worked so well the thing was readable in the sun on the beach (or
>on a boat) in the summer. Most impressive. 
>
>BenCittadino
>
> 
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>R22RumRunner wrote:
>> 
>> Art,
>> Kimberly has one of the original Kindle's and uses it all the time. You
>> can 
>>  download books without having to connect to a computer. It uses wireless

>> cell  technology to give you access to download just about anything you
>> would 
>> ever  want. It holds something like 200 books and you decide what you
want 
>> to keep or  erase. 
>>  
>> Rummy
>>  
>>  
>> In a message dated 12/17/2009 10:51:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
>> gjm at techgra.com writes:
>> 
>> On Dec  17, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Arthur H. Czerwonky wrote:
>> 
>>> Has anyone had  experience or working knowledge with these electronic  
>>>  readers?
>> 
>> Art--
>> 
>> I have the original Kindle and use it everyday  for books, newspapers,  
>> magazines, and blogs.  It syncs to the  iPhone, so you can pickup  
>> reading on your iPhone if you want. I'm  sure the newer models are  
>> better than the one I have, but I'm  waiting to see what the rumored  
>> Apple iTablet will be  like.
>> 
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