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Electronic Book Readers - Kindle 2 VS The Rest

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Electronic Book Readers: What's The Attraction?

Why would you want to consider purchasing an Electronic Book Readers? Well for starters, they are convenient and you have a choice of books to read that would put a small library to shame.

At any given moment, currently, you can choose from up to 1500 books stored at one time on the latest releases of Electronic Book Readers available on the market. But which e-Book reader is the right one for you? Should you choose the Amazon Kindle 2.0 Wireless Reading Device, The Sony PRS 505, or would the ECTACO JetBook be best?

In order to help you decide what Electronic Book Reader devices on the market today is the right choice, I have attempted to present your options below.

AMAZON Kindle 2

The Net Is Buzzing With The Release Of Amazon's Latest Electronic Book Reader

Thinner than an iPhone! It can read to you! You can carry a library of 1500 books with you everywhere you go. The Kindle 2.0 has available through Amazon an amazing 230,000 books. This includes 103 of the 110 books currently on the New York Times Best Sellers List.

There are options available to get your favorite Newspaper Delivered to you wirelessly, whether you are at home, in your car, or at the beach. Want to keep up with your favorite blogs? You can do that too!

Is Amazon's Kindle 2.0 the best electronic book reader on the market today? The jury is still out, but with the features and availability of electronic books, music and media available to Kindle owners, it just might be.

Take a look around the lens and see if owning an electronic book reader is right for you. Then you can pick and choose from the ones featured here. We will be adding models to the lens on a regular basis, so you have information available all in one convenient place.

You Will Read More Books If You Own An Amazon Kindle 2 Wireless Reading Device

The average Kindle owner buys 2-1/2 times more books than before they purchased a Kindle.

Electronic Books Available From Amazon For The Kindle 2.0

Biggest Electronic Book Selection: 230,000 Books

At Amazon, we've always been obsessed with having every book ever printed, and we know that even the best reading device would be useless without a massive selection of books. Today, the Kindle Store has more than 230,000 books available, plus top newspapers, magazines, and blogs. This is just the beginning. Our vision is to have every book ever printed, in any language, all available in under 60 seconds on Kindle. We won't stop until we get there.

Whether you prefer biographies, classics, investment guides, thrillers, or sci-fi, thousands of your favorite books are available, including 103 of 110 books currently found on the New York Times® Best Seller list. New York Times Best Sellers and most new releases are $9.99, and you'll find many books for less.
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SONY eReader PRS 505

Solid Like A Tank

Sony's eReader can store thousands of books and reading materials and display these in a surface that can be read with ease even under direct daylight exposure. This surface and the book-size dimensions of the eReader create a "feel" as that of a book.

Most say that the Sony eReader PRS 505 is solid like a tank. It's not made of cheap plastic like many of the other electronic book readers on the market today.

No wireless access is available - do you really need it??

Here are some of the features of the Sony eReader PRS 505:
  • Offers a unique, on-the-go reading experience and is the perfect travel companion. With a compact and lightweight design, you can take it almost anywhere and read your books whenever and wherever you want. More compact than many paperbacks, it weighs about 9 ounces (without cover), is 1/3 thin, and holds up to 160 eBooks. You can easily hold it in one hand, and with its rechargeable battery, you can turn up to 7,500 continuous pages on a single charge.
  • Easy to read display - E-Paper display with quicker page turns
  • Premium design - Simple, yet sophisticated with easier navigation
  • plenty of internal memory, and a slot for optional removable memory cards, you can take hundreds of titles, user-selected Web content, or other supported documents for reading on the go. It will hold approximately 160 averaged sized eBooks in internal memory and hundreds more with optional removable memory cards.

ECTACO JetBook

Why Is The JetBook Worth Looking At?

I like the looks of the JetBook. There are several features that the JetBook has that are not offered on any of the other listed electronic book readers. The most significant of them are:

  • Support for many languages - e-Book contents in Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian and other European languages
  • Bookmarks and auto page turn functionality
  • Adjustable font type and size
  • Screen rotation support for both portrait & landscape modes

What I would like to see added to this device:
  • Wireless internet access and a web browser. I know this kills the battery life, but it is worth it.
  • I would like it to have a back-light so documents can be read in the dark. it would be very good thing to have.
  • The JetBook does not read SD cards larger than 2GB.
  • Adobe Digital Ebook won't work with the Jetbook. Make sure that there is a sufficient library of the types of books you want to read before you purchase any electronic book reader. If you are mainly interested in the current best seller lists, this would probably not be the e-book reader for you.

Which Is The Best Electronic Book Reader?

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  • messel Mar 3, 2009 @ 8:13 am | delete
    Heyo Lensmagician,
    I admit I enjoyed your eReader review a lot (I think it was groovier than my own and it motivates me to rework it!).
    I added a link to this on my http://www.squidoo.com/KindleTwo lens, and would love it if you would like to join two new groups I formed today.
    http://www.squidoo.com/groups/Kindle2
    http://www.squidoo.com/groups/eReaders
    The idea is to get some interlense links cooking for all the Kindle 2, and eReader interest/info we squid members have.
  • Susan52 Feb 23, 2009 @ 11:20 am | delete
    I own the original Kindle and love it. Amazon makes everything so easy. I especially like that there are no contracts. Good to compare, though, before making a decision, like you've done here and I've done on my Amazon Kindle versus Sony Reader lens.
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Advantages Of Electronic Books Over Print Books

Besides Saving The Life Of A Tree

There are a number of advantages to electronic books from both the Readers point of view and the Author/Publishers.

  • Text can be searched automatically and cross-referenced using hyperlinks, making the electronic book format ideal for works that benefit from such functions.
  • Electronic books can allow non-permanent highlighting of books.
  • Less physical space is required to store electronic books, and hundreds or thousands of books may be stored on the same device.
  • A single electronic book reader containing several books is easier to carry around than several print books.
  • Because they require little space, electronic books can be offered indefinitely, with no going out of print date, allowing authors to continue to earn royalties indefinitely.
  • Readers who have difficulty reading printed books can benefit from the adjustment of text size and font face.
  • Text-to-speech software can be used to convert electronic books to audio books automatically.
  • Electronic book devices allow reading in low light or even total darkness by means of a back light.
  • An electronic book can automatically open at the last read page.
  • While an electronic book reader costs more than one book, the electronic texts are generally cheaper.
  • It is easier for authors to self-publish electronic books.
  • Ease of distributing e-texts means that they can be used to stimulate higher sales of printed copies of books.
  • Although they require electricity to be read, the production of electronic books does not consume the paper, ink, and other resources that are used to produce print books.
  • Electronic books may allow animated images or multimedia clips to be embedded.
  • Electronic books allow for greater fidelity in color reproduction compared to CMYK color printing (although some electronic book readers have only monochrome displays).

Disadvantages Of Electronic Books Over Print Books

Besides Not Being As Attractive On A Bookshelf

I really like Print Books. I like their look, feel and yes, even the smell of print books in a library.

  • From the reader's perspective, conventional ownership, fair use, and access to the book's content is challenged and restricted by Digital Rights Management.
  • If not viewed on computers, electronic books require the purchase of an electronic device and/or peripheral software which can display them. If they are to be viewed on a personal computer, it may require additional software
  • Most publishers don't produce the electronic book equivalent of their print books. In other cases, electronic books are given a lower priority in terms of the publisher's resources, resulting in a disparity in product quality, release dates and the like. This problem is not endemic to every publisher, but has an effect on the quality of the overall pool of merchandise available.
  • All electronic book devices require electrical power, resulting in the consumption of electricity.
  • Looking at a screen for a long time may cause eye strain and sometimes headaches.
  • Electronic books formats are likely to become obsolete quickly and incompatible with future devices.[citation needed]
  • Electronic book readers are far more likely to be stolen than paper books.
  • Electronic book readers are far more fragile than paper books and more susceptible to physical damage.
  • As an electronic book is dependent on equipment to be read, it can be affected by faults in external hardware or software, such as hard disk drive failure.
  • Electronic books can be easily hacked through the use of hardware or software modifications and widely disseminated on the Internet and/or other electronic book readers, without approval from the author or publisher.
  • If an electronic book device is stolen, lost, or broken beyond repair, all electronic books stored on the device may be lost. This can be avoided by backup either on another device or by the electronic book provider.
  • There is a loss of tactility and aesthetics of book-bindings.
  • Screen resolution of reading devices may be lower than actual paper, making it difficult to read electronic books.

The greatest disadvantage in an electronic book is piracy. Most proprietary software were termed secure but soon pirated copies flooded the underground market. The same could be said of the electronic book as well. Books are much more difficult to duplicate in an amateur printing press.

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