Comments on: E booked for Ireland and beyond http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/off-to-ireland/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert Nagle http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/off-to-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-889403 Robert Nagle Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:49:49 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=11962#comment-889403 You might want to give <a href="http://www.safeware.com" rel="nofollow">safeware </a> a visit. They sell accident/theft/loss insurance for laptops, desktops, pdas, etc. They didn’t specifically have any ebook reader equipment listed so you may want to call their toll free number. They sell a lot of policies to college students (I just bought one for my daughter’s MacBook before she went off to college last week). The policy may cost a bit more than Sony’s but you can probably add some of your other gizmos to the policy. OTOH it might be cheaper/easier just to return the Sony, pay the restocking fee and then turn around a buy a brand new one to qualify for Sony’s insurance. If you take the Sony you might also want to get a cover similar to the Kindle cover. I NEVER carry my Kindle around sans cover. The Kindle cover is stiff enough that it offers protection from puncture and bending type damage. Good call on taking the x51v - great device, great screen (better than the iPhone’s) and I agree Newsbreak is a great app. You might want to just load up an SD card with some mp3’s and use your x51v as an mp3 player with some earbuds. Coincidentally I just bought my daughter the Panasonic Lumix TZ5 (blue body) a week before she left for college. Pretty cool camera. Good for traveling as it has a rather wide angle and a 10x zoom. You can also plug the camera into a tv and display your photos and videos to friends and family that way. Even though I’m a middle-aged guy I would have to add one more gizmo for such a long trip - I couldn’t go on a three week vacation without my Nintendo DS and Mario Kart(though there are some decent games for the Axim so maybe I could leave it behind). Bon voyage and godspeed! ***************************************** Reprinted from a comment by Heavy G. Apparently the comment was eaten. You might want to give safeware a visit. They sell accident/theft/loss insurance for laptops, desktops, pdas, etc. They didn’t specifically have any ebook reader equipment listed so you may want to call their toll free number.

They sell a lot of policies to college students (I just bought one for my daughter’s MacBook before she went off to college last week).

The policy may cost a bit more than Sony’s but you can probably add some of your other gizmos to the policy.

OTOH it might be cheaper/easier just to return the Sony, pay the restocking fee and then turn around a buy a brand new one to qualify for Sony’s insurance.

If you take the Sony you might also want to get a cover similar to the Kindle cover. I NEVER carry my Kindle around sans cover. The Kindle cover is stiff enough that it offers protection from puncture and bending type damage.

Good call on taking the x51v – great device, great screen (better than the iPhone’s) and I agree Newsbreak is a great app.

You might want to just load up an SD card with some mp3’s and use your x51v as an mp3 player with some earbuds.

Coincidentally I just bought my daughter the Panasonic Lumix TZ5 (blue body) a week before she left for college. Pretty cool camera. Good for traveling as it has a rather wide angle and a 10x zoom.

You can also plug the camera into a tv and display your photos and videos to friends and family that way.

Even though I’m a middle-aged guy I would have to add one more gizmo for such a long trip – I couldn’t go on a three week vacation without my Nintendo DS and Mario Kart(though there are some decent games for the Axim so maybe I could leave it behind).

Bon voyage and godspeed!

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Reprinted from a comment by Heavy G. Apparently the comment was eaten.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/off-to-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-888628 David Rothman Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:58:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=11962#comment-888628 Happiest of vacations, Robert, and I indeed hope you'll do some travel-related posts even if you can't always think of e-book angles. They just might occur to you while you're writing. Photos, audios or videos would be great. And I very much hope other members of the TeleBlog community will e-mail you, so that if schedules allow, you can meet them F2F. David (who'll also understand if you don't post---because it is a <em>vacation</em>) Happiest of vacations, Robert, and I indeed hope you’ll do some travel-related posts even if you can’t always think of e-book angles. They just might occur to you while you’re writing. Photos, audios or videos would be great. And I very much hope other members of the TeleBlog community will e-mail you, so that if schedules allow, you can meet them F2F.

David
(who’ll also understand if you don’t post—because it is a vacation)

]]> By: Karen http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/off-to-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-888577 Karen Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:20:29 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=11962#comment-888577 Another reason that, perhaps, you should have bought a Kindle. Travel guides, including Ireland do exist. This one even has general info and a map in the free sample portion: http://tinyurl.com/6x2a84 Plus the MP3 player built in (add a decent set of travel earbuds) for music and audiobooks. Just drop them all on a 16BG SDHC (add a second one for books if the 150-200 built in capacity isn't enough). And you could post to a blog - but only in the states. So you're PDA no doubt has that all covered (and includes a camera). For RSS feeds, check out feedbooks.com; you can pull in about any RSS feed (full feeds work best) to read offline. Several formats are supported. I've seen a couple of others start up similar services, but theirs is the most painless (and they have software to sync your device anytime you plug it in or you can do so via the internet connection on your device). Another reason that, perhaps, you should have bought a Kindle. Travel guides, including Ireland do exist. This one even has general info and a map in the free sample portion: http://tinyurl.com/6x2a84

Plus the MP3 player built in (add a decent set of travel earbuds) for music and audiobooks. Just drop them all on a 16BG SDHC (add a second one for books if the 150-200 built in capacity isn’t enough). And you could post to a blog – but only in the states. So you’re PDA no doubt has that all covered (and includes a camera).

For RSS feeds, check out feedbooks.com; you can pull in about any RSS feed (full feeds work best) to read offline. Several formats are supported. I’ve seen a couple of others start up similar services, but theirs is the most painless (and they have software to sync your device anytime you plug it in or you can do so via the internet connection on your device).

]]> By: Bob Russell http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/off-to-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-888494 Bob Russell Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:00:47 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=11962#comment-888494 Have a great trip! Have a great trip!

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