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celticdragonflySo I've been wanting a decent ebook reader for some time now.
I'd been thinking I wanted what NAEB,LLC was working on - the Baen's Bar group that wanted Jim to design an ebook reader for them, and he set up forum space and told them to go at it themselves - and they ended up working out a deal with a Russian ebook reader company, the Bookeen.
The Bookeen is not hooked up to any one buyer. It can handle all the formats - although understanding just what is meant by the PDF comment "Adobe® DRM and forms are not supported" is iffy for me. I could put all my Baen books stuff on there, and all the multiple format Fictionwise books, and maybe the Secure Format Fictionwise stuff.
Now I'm also looking at Amazon's Kindle. It *looks* like it would let me put my own stuff on it - although it's iffy about PDFs. ("PDF conversion is experimental. The experimental category represents the features we are working on to enhance the Kindle experience even further. You can email your PDFs wirelessly to your Kindle. Due to PDF’s fixed layout format, some complex PDF files might not format correctly on your Kindle.")
The Bookeen will let me set bookmarks. The Kindle lets you set bookmarks AND put in annotations.
The Kindle would let me have cheap online magazine subscriptions - I wouldn't go for a newspaper, but I might go for Time. And it would let me access Wikipedia wirelessly from anywhere. Big plus.
I am worried about the Amazon DRM thing, and the concern that in the future I might not be able to get to my books. I also don't understand how their downloads work. I mean, 200 books may sound big to some people, but my library is a lot bigger than that - even with an ebook, I'll be loading and unloading stuff - can I get to stuff again later? And yes, I reread a LOT.
Anyway, right now I'm just looking and coveting - but I would love to get input, suggestions, and commentary.
I'd been thinking I wanted what NAEB,LLC was working on - the Baen's Bar group that wanted Jim to design an ebook reader for them, and he set up forum space and told them to go at it themselves - and they ended up working out a deal with a Russian ebook reader company, the Bookeen.
The Bookeen is not hooked up to any one buyer. It can handle all the formats - although understanding just what is meant by the PDF comment "Adobe® DRM and forms are not supported" is iffy for me. I could put all my Baen books stuff on there, and all the multiple format Fictionwise books, and maybe the Secure Format Fictionwise stuff.
Now I'm also looking at Amazon's Kindle. It *looks* like it would let me put my own stuff on it - although it's iffy about PDFs. ("PDF conversion is experimental. The experimental category represents the features we are working on to enhance the Kindle experience even further. You can email your PDFs wirelessly to your Kindle. Due to PDF’s fixed layout format, some complex PDF files might not format correctly on your Kindle.")
The Bookeen will let me set bookmarks. The Kindle lets you set bookmarks AND put in annotations.
The Kindle would let me have cheap online magazine subscriptions - I wouldn't go for a newspaper, but I might go for Time. And it would let me access Wikipedia wirelessly from anywhere. Big plus.
I am worried about the Amazon DRM thing, and the concern that in the future I might not be able to get to my books. I also don't understand how their downloads work. I mean, 200 books may sound big to some people, but my library is a lot bigger than that - even with an ebook, I'll be loading and unloading stuff - can I get to stuff again later? And yes, I reread a LOT.
Anyway, right now I'm just looking and coveting - but I would love to get input, suggestions, and commentary.