Best E-book Reader Reviews
Many wireless electronic book reading device are fast emerging and among the leading brand is the Amazon Kindle. Amazon’s first wireless reading device was released in 2007, and for a few months after its release, Kindle was sold out in the US until April of 2008. All of Amazon’s e-book readers use an electronic ink paper display that provides the same appearance and readability as your typical newsprint – allowing its users to feel the same comfort and ease.
Are you most concerned with wireless capability? If you would like to have the ability to find and purchase books directly from your device, the Kindle family is for you! The Amazon Kindle 2 and DX are connected to Sprint’s 3G wireless network which allows you to access the Amazon kindle store directly on your device. Where ever you have cell phone service, you can download books in under 60 seconds. And the best part, THERE IS NO MONTHLY FEES OR CONTRACTS! The Sony family of readers does not have this capability and must be plugged into your computer to download new books.
Will you be reading only books? Or will newspapers, blogs, and PDF’s be a regular? The Kindle family has the widest selection of ebooks available, with over 275,000 titles and new ones being added every day. Also with the Kindle you have to opportunity to subscribe to your favorite newspapers and blogs. The Sony readers have more flexibility when it comes to non ebook formats, such as PDF, Microsoft Word documents, and other text formats. Although the brand new Kindle DX now has native PDF support. Whether you choose a Sony or a Kindle you will find the ebooks are much cheaper than their printed counterparts. New York Times Bestsellers start at $9.99 at the Kindle Store.
Perhaps the reason why e-book readers have become a realistic proposition just now is the advent of the display technology? Anyone who has spent time in front of a computer monitor can attest that reading text can be a little wearing after a while. With the new bread of e book readers this is addressed by the use of electronic ink technologies which give the text on-screen an appearance which is very similar to traditional paper.
In June of the same year, however, Amazon released another model for their e-book readers, Kindle DX. A bit more pricey than Kindle 2, but this model surpasses the designs of the previous Kindle. Kindle DX has a 9.7″ electronic paper display, with a 16-level gray scale – more than twice the size of the original Kindle. This large display allows its users to have a wider variety of reading materials to choose from. It weighs only 18.9 ounces, just like your average hardcover book, that can hold up to 3,500 electronic books. Its feature also includes a wireless access to Wikipedia, and The New Oxford American Dictionary.
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