Comments on: My Sony Reader, one week in http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-sony-reader-one-week-in/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:09:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jack Tingle http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-sony-reader-one-week-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1025781 Jack Tingle Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:31:05 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/23/my-sony-reader-one-week-in/#comment-1025781 Keep us posted from time to time; this is interesting. The Sony Reader has always seemed to me to be the closest to a mature product. Sony's design skills are second to none and it shows. Their excessive attachment to their own ideas is an unfortunate and forgivable side effect of that. (Memory Stick? Right.) Amazon seems to be intent on locking Kindle down so tightly that it's too risky to buy. I remember their last ebook venture; no thanks. Come the day Sony bites the bullet and adds all the common non-DRM formats in general use*, I'll probably buy one. Since I don't buy DRMed ebooks, I can then us one device for all kinds of reading. Until then, my old reliable Dell X51 (which can use almost any format) will have to serve. Regards, Jack Tingle * plucker, fb2, chm, pdb (eReader), prc/mobi, and html/xhtml would cover most of the ones they don't have. A lit file reader would be good, but I don't imagine MS will ever let that happen. Keep us posted from time to time; this is interesting. The Sony Reader has always seemed to me to be the closest to a mature product. Sony’s design skills are second to none and it shows. Their excessive attachment to their own ideas is an unfortunate and forgivable side effect of that. (Memory Stick? Right.) Amazon seems to be intent on locking Kindle down so tightly that it’s too risky to buy. I remember their last ebook venture; no thanks.

Come the day Sony bites the bullet and adds all the common non-DRM formats in general use*, I’ll probably buy one. Since I don’t buy DRMed ebooks, I can then us one device for all kinds of reading. Until then, my old reliable Dell X51 (which can use almost any format) will have to serve.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

* plucker, fb2, chm, pdb (eReader), prc/mobi, and html/xhtml would cover most of the ones they don’t have. A lit file reader would be good, but I don’t imagine MS will ever let that happen.

]]> By: Logan Kennelly http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-sony-reader-one-week-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1025394 Logan Kennelly Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:33:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/23/my-sony-reader-one-week-in/#comment-1025394 Regarding the movement between eBook readers, I have a similar problem. Fortunately, Adobe has already solved the issue with a defined method for electronic page numbers. (I believe that the Kindle has a similar, although probably incompatible, system in place.) These are the small numbers you see on the right-hand side in Digital Editions and the Sony Reader. Unfortunately, Stanza does not support them, and I haven't seen any indication that they plan to or that people are asking for them. (It's actually the kind of thing that would be really fun to add if the application were open source.) We'll get there, though. Regarding the movement between eBook readers, I have a similar problem. Fortunately, Adobe has already solved the issue with a defined method for electronic page numbers. (I believe that the Kindle has a similar, although probably incompatible, system in place.) These are the small numbers you see on the right-hand side in Digital Editions and the Sony Reader.

Unfortunately, Stanza does not support them, and I haven’t seen any indication that they plan to or that people are asking for them. (It’s actually the kind of thing that would be really fun to add if the application were open source.)

We’ll get there, though.

]]> By: Anne Douglas http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-sony-reader-one-week-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1025387 Anne Douglas Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:59:01 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/23/my-sony-reader-one-week-in/#comment-1025387 I'm glad you're enjoying your new reader, and of course the wonderful organisational genius that is Calibre. And I also must thank you for the shout out for Anne's Addictions (your cover should be there by the end of the week!) I’m glad you’re enjoying your new reader, and of course the wonderful organisational genius that is Calibre. And I also must thank you for the shout out for Anne’s Addictions (your cover should be there by the end of the week!)

]]> By: Paul http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-sony-reader-one-week-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1025064 Paul Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:08:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/23/my-sony-reader-one-week-in/#comment-1025064 If you look in the MobileRead Sony section there is a hack available to give uniform font sizes across the entire menu. It makes it much nicer. If you look in the MobileRead Sony section there is a hack available to give uniform font sizes across the entire menu. It makes it much nicer.

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