tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5716787.post8127282019290152553..comments2018-02-07T06:37:18.171-05:00Comments on Bill Starr's Blog: What's on my Sony e-book reader so farBill Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08816801309226279055noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5716787.post-27028075572265190962010-04-13T14:56:32.271-04:002010-04-13T14:56:32.271-04:00For basic, linear reading, my wife and I have been...For basic, linear reading, my wife and I have been pretty happy with the Sony PRS-300. We got ours for $200 (plus sales tax) at Target and Wal-mart. Looks like they&#39;re around $170 from Amazon third party sellers now.<br /><br />For that price, you copy books from a host computer via USB cable. You can jump direct to a particular page, but no provision to copy/paste text into some other application, nor to search for a string.<br /><br />There is no expansion slot, but I&#39;ve got about 250 books of various sizes on mine and still have about 258 of 443 megabytes internal memory free.<br /><br />The books on mine range from 8K to 9M, with a median size of about 370K.<br /><br />Since I only use mine for free PDF &amp; EPUB format books, and have no need for DRM support, I dispense completely with any sort of client on the host computer and just copy books direct to the &quot;/database/media/books&quot; folder on the Sony.Bill Starrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08816801309226279055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5716787.post-88477467927503625692010-04-13T13:08:13.022-04:002010-04-13T13:08:13.022-04:00Bill, I&#39;m happy to have a look at your list ....Bill,<br /><br />I&#39;m happy to have a look at your list ... because it will help me build mine!<br /><br />I don&#39;t have a dedicated e-reader device (I use Stanza on my Mac desktop), but expect I&#39;ll eventually get one.<br /><br />I am jonesing for an iPad, but I&#39;m not the kind of guy who spends $500 on a convenience device. Fortunately, I expect that the <em>existence</em> of the iPad will drive the price of Kindle and other similar devices waaaaaay down, possibly even into my range.KN@PPSTERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5716787.post-9714187379000850842010-04-11T08:41:29.955-04:002010-04-11T08:41:29.955-04:00Thanks for having a look at my list, Thomas (or To...Thanks for having a look at my list, Thomas (or Tom; can&#39;t remember which you prefer), and helping me round it out a bit.<br /><br />I don&#39;t recall hearing of Cory or these books before. I just put them on my reader and read a bit of the intro to &quot;Little Brother&quot;.<br /><br />My reading list has been rather light on fiction for a long time. Recently I&#39;ve read &quot;Alongside Night&quot; and &quot;Publicani&quot;.<br /><br />A few years back, when my libertarian leanings were much less strong than today, I read &quot;Unintended Consequences&quot; by John Ross and most of &quot;Atlas Shrugged.&quot;Bill Starrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08816801309226279055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5716787.post-60072542655610725142010-04-11T06:51:13.036-04:002010-04-11T06:51:13.036-04:00Bill, Interesting list! I notice there&#39;s no ...Bill,<br /><br />Interesting list!<br /><br />I notice there&#39;s no Cory Doctorow on it. I suggest giving either <em>Little Brother</em> or <em>Makers</em> a read (after which you&#39;ll probably want all of his stuff). All of Doctorow&#39;s books are available as free downloads at craphound.com.KN@PPSTERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.com
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