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<blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 5429698" data-attributes="member: 19998"><p>Out of curiosity, what ebook readers have you looked at? I have a kindle. It came with two dictionaries, The Oxford Dictionary of English, and the Oxford American English Dictionary. Plus, I bought Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus. And the kindle is great as a reference book.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Every book on a Kindle is fully searchable. On top of that, if I move the cursor to the left of a word, the definition comes-up automatically. I can choose any dictionary I own as the default dictionary.</p><p></p><p>This confuses me as many, many, references works are in B&W. In fact, many of them have 0 diagrams. I'm not sure why an eReader should be any different. That said, the kindle has a good resolution and displays images images in line with the text. In fact, Project Gutenberg has kindle books with images.</p><p></p><p>You realize that we're talking about <em>e</em>Readers right? Electronic means that it runs on electricity. Anyways, the e-ink display only uses power when it changes pages. It doesn't use any power while the page is on. In fact, when I turn off my kindle, it displays a random picture until I turn it own again. This is one of the major selling points of the kindle and all e-ink devices. They use far less power than an LCD device. I can go a week without charging my kindle if I keep the wi-fi on. If I turn it off, it can last month. </p><p></p><p>The kindle has about 3gigs of space. Many eReaders have SD expansion slots. When I buy I book from Amazon (or download one from Project Gutenberg) it's on the kindle's flash drive. I don't need to be connected to the network except to 1) download books i bought and 2) use the web browser. In fact I often turn off the wi-fi just to conserve power.</p><p></p><p>The kindle has built in text-to-speech. I've used int, it's not bad. On top of that, all eReaders let you change the size of the text. The small is really small, and the large is really large. The kindle has 8 different text sizes. Plus you can change the type face from serif to sans serif, the space between lines, and number of words on a line. </p><p></p><p>Ebooks aren't perfect for everything. Remotly deleting content is wrong. Amazon did it a while back (with, of all things, Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984) and got into so much trouble for it <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/amazon-chief-says-erasing-orwell-books-was-stupid/" target="_blank"> Bezos publicly apologized for it</a>. To my knowledge, it hasn't happened since.</p><p></p><p>Generally speaking, my kindle gives me about the same reading quality as a paperback book does, which is what they were going for. For example, reading <em>A Princess of Mars</em> on my kindle is the same as reading my paperback copy, except that my kindle isn't falling apart.</p><p></p><p>I think the biggest problem is that many publishers want DRMed files and do dumb things like disable copy and paste, which is a big mistake I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fanboy2000, post: 5429698, member: 19998"] Out of curiosity, what ebook readers have you looked at? I have a kindle. It came with two dictionaries, The Oxford Dictionary of English, and the Oxford American English Dictionary. Plus, I bought Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus. And the kindle is great as a reference book. Every book on a Kindle is fully searchable. On top of that, if I move the cursor to the left of a word, the definition comes-up automatically. I can choose any dictionary I own as the default dictionary. This confuses me as many, many, references works are in B&W. In fact, many of them have 0 diagrams. I'm not sure why an eReader should be any different. That said, the kindle has a good resolution and displays images images in line with the text. In fact, Project Gutenberg has kindle books with images. You realize that we're talking about [i]e[/i]Readers right? Electronic means that it runs on electricity. Anyways, the e-ink display only uses power when it changes pages. It doesn't use any power while the page is on. In fact, when I turn off my kindle, it displays a random picture until I turn it own again. This is one of the major selling points of the kindle and all e-ink devices. They use far less power than an LCD device. I can go a week without charging my kindle if I keep the wi-fi on. If I turn it off, it can last month. The kindle has about 3gigs of space. Many eReaders have SD expansion slots. When I buy I book from Amazon (or download one from Project Gutenberg) it's on the kindle's flash drive. I don't need to be connected to the network except to 1) download books i bought and 2) use the web browser. In fact I often turn off the wi-fi just to conserve power. The kindle has built in text-to-speech. I've used int, it's not bad. On top of that, all eReaders let you change the size of the text. The small is really small, and the large is really large. The kindle has 8 different text sizes. Plus you can change the type face from serif to sans serif, the space between lines, and number of words on a line. Ebooks aren't perfect for everything. Remotly deleting content is wrong. Amazon did it a while back (with, of all things, Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984) and got into so much trouble for it [URL="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/amazon-chief-says-erasing-orwell-books-was-stupid/"] Bezos publicly apologized for it[/URL]. To my knowledge, it hasn't happened since. Generally speaking, my kindle gives me about the same reading quality as a paperback book does, which is what they were going for. For example, reading [i]A Princess of Mars[/i] on my kindle is the same as reading my paperback copy, except that my kindle isn't falling apart. I think the biggest problem is that many publishers want DRMed files and do dumb things like disable copy and paste, which is a big mistake I think. [/QUOTE]
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