The Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and Iliad on Twin Cities Live

[ceterafan123]

I still prefer normal books; it feels more natural to me.

[coolsriram23]

do not compare netbooks with kindle. .

only a novel lover will understand the true feel of kindle. . kindle 2 the best, i am owing it for the past eight months. . i love it a lot. . kindle rocks as e-book reader. . . kindle almost gives the feel of the hardbound book. . sleek and cute. .

[sajeev86]

Tech guy is completely ignoring the woman.

[Fait2]

After less than 6 months, my Iliad began to fail. It will jump 15 to 20 pages at a time, no longer connect to my PC and the battery life is down to 5 hours from 15 hours.

iRex is stonewalling me about the repairs and ignores my repeated questions. Never buy anything from iRex.

[johnmonk66]

lol, who is irex? kindle is the best of the bunch, best storage, best wirelss downloading, best customer service

[Fait2]

Irex is a company in Holland that makes the Iliad. The Kindle is far from the best ebook reader and Amazon has terrible customer service, charges far too much for the Kindle, and their prices for downloading ebooks are criminal. I would never buy any ebook reader knowing what I know after owning two of them. A netbook or tablet PC is a far better but, more useful and cheaper, too.

[johnmonk66]

You spent 700 for an Irex and complain the 270 dollar kindle is expensive? That doesn't make sense. Their price for downloading ebooks is criminal??? Go write a book and sell it for 10 cents, see how many books you would write. The author has his right to make money, and amazon makes about 35 cents for every ebook it sells.

[Fait2]

Yes, a $270 Kindle tis expensive when you can buy a netbook for $300 that does far more and doesn't tie you to overpriced ebooks. I never said they should sell for 10 cents, that's your ignorance speaking. And if you think Amazon only makes 35 cents on an ebook, you're either a fool, a liar, or both.

BTW, I did not spend $700 on a Iliad (not an iRex, that's the company) So you're off on another erroneous flight of fancy.

[johnmonk66]

the irex cost 700 bucks, stop telling lies

[Fait2]

For the second time, iRex is the manufacturer. The device is the Iliad. You can't even get that straight and you presume to tell me the price of something I bought and you didn't. Do you know how stupid you are showing yourself to be?

You were mildly entertaining, but like most stupid people, you are simply boring. So I won't be answering you again.

As for spelling, you have never made a typo, I'm sure.

Go rent a brain somewhere, even a cheap one will be a big improvement for you.

[gravelandgrain100]

I have the most amazing crush on John-only reason I watch actually!!

I watched today and saw no wedding ring on his hands, so John come on down to ******, MN and I would like to show you the town and then we'll read together....and I hate reading...

[Benzenering1004]

i get my books from the library for free! I also purchase books from the friends of the library for 50 cents to a dollar each..Beat that e-readers..pft!

[johnmonk66]

I carry 1500 books in my bag, how many 50 cent books can you carry?

[Benzenering1004]

1500 books at $10 a piece..you do the math.

[johnmonk66]

completely wrong, that is only the price of new releases. you can't get new releases at library sales. I have put a hundred classics on my kindle for about 12 dollars.

[Fait2]

I have over 700 new and classic books and all were for free. Enjoy your Kindle, idiot. It's true, a fool and hos money are soon parted.

[johnmonk66]

apparently all that reading hasn't taught you how to spell

[Benzenering1004]

What if there is a nuclear blast and electro magnetic pulses render all electronic devices useless? :P Actually I would love to have a Kindle, maybe when they come out with Kindle 3 you can send me yours when you upgrade. Hehe.

[nemesis3001]

Ahhh... I think I'd be more concerned about my genes being knocked apart if a nuclear detonation went off close enough to damage my reader :)

[Houseguy2]

Elizabeth has great legs!

[quillaja]

I'd hit dat.

[BearBoi69]

She was born with a penis. Its true. It was really more of a nubbin, because it didn't have testicles. Not externally, anyway.

[Houseguy2]

You really have no fucking clue what you are talking about.

[BearBoi69]

Actually, I do.

Unlike you, who probably watch TCL just to jerk off to a former hermaphrodite. Does that turn you on? Chicks with dicks? You're freekin' nasty.

[v1m]

Ah, those Minny-soda accents! Pure Coen Bros:

"Watcha watchin', Wade?"

"Gophers."

[thibaulthalpern]

Don't forget too that you can often get these bestsellers at your local public library ;-) Again, let's not over blow the advantages. The digital readers have their advantages but often the justifications used for the digital readers are hyped up. Besides, most people don't buy two hardcover books a month.

[thibaulthalpern]

Umm...have we forgotten that reading books (or anything) at the same distance for a long time will strain the eyes? It's not as if ePaper has solved that problem. ePaper does have its uses but the advantage that is doesn't strain one's eyes is over blow, over hyped. One reason our eyes strain when reading is the amount of time our eyes are fixated on the same distance. Regardless of paper or ePaper, this will happen.

[frankbass1]

Damn! I never realized how difficult it is to read a book. So heavy!

[rubinoooo4]

Is the Sony or the Kindle better in general?

[TheFemaleDurden]

The Sony 700 hundred looks IMMENSE. One question- does it have wireless?

[jhaelter]

uhu why buy a kindle for like 299 or 399 or whatever! it's expensive. and a book is enviorement unfriendly, like if. come on! electric devices are so more unfriendly

[AWriterWandering]

Plastic cups consume more resources to make than paper cups. However the former is considered more environmentally friendly because it only takes a small amount of energy to clean and reuse.

It's the same idea here. The ebook consumes more resources initially, however the maintenance is low. Especially since the eInk uses very little power compared to other display technologies.

[quillaja]

But plastic cups and e-readers don't biodegrade. They can't be made into compost. Most people don't bother properly recycling their plastic cups or electronic devices.

Furthermore, the maintenance of a book is lower than an e-reader. Also, books can be kept for longer, while the pace of technology and a consumer mentality drives us to create and discard electronic devices at a very environmentally unfriendly pace.

That said, I'm 100% for e-readers, but not for environmental reasons.