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E-books for Nintendo Wii and DS—and Sony PS3
November 28, 2006 | 5:03 am
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By David Rothman
Darren Reid, sci-fi and fantasy author, is releasing free books for the Nintendo Wii and DS. So what other titles are available on games platforms, and does anyone have tips for owners? Talk about offbeat formats. Separately, the tireless Matt McClintock of manybooks.net offers a PSP section of classics and Creative Commons titles.
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PSP or something else as a capable Comic Book reader?
I am having an incredibly difficult time finding anyone else looking to do what I propose:
I download a lot of comics, can be in zip, rar, cbr/cbz, jpg and png primarily. I am looking very hard at purchasing a device dedicated solely to reading these away from my computer. My restrictions are: $250 preferably, $400 MAX and a bare minimum of 4.3″ screen, preferably 7″+. Has to be able to read images in any of the above formats and do so nibbly (i.e. load images quickly and be able to pan around, if zooming is required). So far I have considered the following devices:
-PSP (480px screen, too small for shrunken pages at this resolution so zooming and panning is required)
-Archos AV700 (7″ screen probably doesn’t require zooming and panning, but needs to be able to do so with double splash pages)
-Archos 604 (4.3″ screen, again not ideal since would require constant zoom and panning, but is VERY nimble with pictures)
-WebDT 375 Wireless Tablet PC (excellent screen size but I am completely unfamiliar with Windows CE .Net 4.2 OS)
I would appreciate any feedback at all on my mission, especially since it is so nice to find a site dedicated to reading on electronic devices.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
[Moderator's note: I've changed the time stamp from 1 a.m. to move this useful message closer to the top for now. - David.]