On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, jack wallen<jlwallen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Frank Murphy wrote: >> Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. >> Against maybe buying a 7" netbook for same purpose. >> >> Trying to cut down on space use\Paper book purchases. >> > well, i got a kindle for father's day. it was given to me a few days ago > and i LOVE it. AND it runs Linux. they are about the same price as a > netbook but your eyes won't start aching after hours of reading. While the kindle isn't ideal in terms of openness, if you want a dedicated device for reading ebooks it is very nice in some important ways. The display is far superior to any LCD based device in my opinion and if you turn off the wireless the battery lasts an amazing amount of time. You can download a vast number of ebooks in various formats from amazon and several other places. If you only want to read books from Project Gutenberg or other non-amazon choices that is fine too. The biggest functional weakness of the device as a book reader is its incredibly limited organizational capabilities. I've used FBReader for several years on Nokia Internet Tablets (N770,N800) and have been very happy with it also if you prefer reading on a smaller display. While the brightness of the LCD does tire your eyes faster not having to scan left to right compensates to a degree. I haven't ever been a fan of reading ebooks on larger displays really so don't have any useful experience on notebooks or desktops. John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
