I have been e-book reading for quite a few years on an HP PDA - so I'm
an enthusiast rather than a reluctant convert!
I thought of buying the Sony e-reader as soon as they came out in
America, but I have kept putting it off, and now, of course, we have
them here in the UK.
My opinion is No - don't buy one. The reason is that it doesn't take all
formats, and, in particular it doesn't take Microsoft's Lit format.
I have been watching out for a cheap Chinese version (these things
usually follow) and I have seen the Hanlin e-Reader v3 by Jinke. Specs
look OK and it is available from one supplier in the UK.
These are the formats it claims to read PDF, DOC, WOLF, MP3, HTML, TXT,
CHM, FB2, Djvu, PNG, TIF, GIF, BMP, JPG, PPT, EPUB, LIT, PRC, MOBI.
Here's the Chinese manufacturer's url
http://www.jinke.com.cn/Compagesql/English/embedpro/prodetail.asp?id=41
Eric Jukes
Asset & Information Systems Manager
College of North East London
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Subject: Sony e-readers
I have had the following request from one of our academics:
I am thinking of getting a sony e-reader from waterstones - is there any
work
being done in the sector on using them as learning tools in libraries?
putting
whole course reading on them etc? they take pdf and word files along
with
many other formats
Is anybody doing any work on this?
Thanks
David Farley
University of Winchester
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