eReaders

[fastbilly1]

A good friend has a Nook Color and without wifi he averages 7 hours of battery life, with wifi it hits like 3. Sure the screen isnt as good as the eink of the others, but it is a capable $250 android tablet. I was mostly looking at the Nook Color for RPG books and Comics/Manga. The Kindle is vastly superior if you are just reading novels.

[SpaceBooger]

the one I have is called the Pandigital Novel. Those digital photo frame guys. It only runs pdf and epub, which is half the stuff out there, but pdfs don't format to the screen that well. I'd get the nook.

She reads novels like crazy but likes the idea of the net and such and I noticed I can get the Novel for less than $100.
But... if it's not that nice and wont read everything I'm thinking about splurging on the Kindle.
Any other, or more detailed, experiences with the Pandigital Novel?

[corn619]

A good friend has a Nook Color and without wifi he averages 7 hours of battery life, with wifi it hits like 3. Sure the screen isnt as good as the eink of the others, but it is a capable $250 android tablet. I was mostly looking at the Nook Color for RPG books and Comics/Manga. The Kindle is vastly superior if you are just reading novels.

Yeah I guess your choice lies with what kind of reading you do. I just use it to read novels and basic browsing with the free 3G. I read a lot outdoors in the nicer months so a LCD screen would suck for me. And I do admit, the Kindle does suck for any kind of illustrated book. I can't wait for the eReader thats a adjustable backlit, color e-ink screen with free 3G. I'm sooooo there.

[Bradtemple87]

The Nook color seems impressive to me. I enjoyed playing with it when I installed the demo stations at work.

[YoshiEgg25]

This reminds me of a thread that noise made a month or two ago.

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 15&t=26310

I was the first to make the GBA e-Reader joke.

[Anapan]

I got my mom a Sony Reader Pocket Edition (PRS-300) that was barely used for christmas last year. I think I paid $75+shipping. The E-Ink display is incredible, and it renders PDFs (and most other formats) really well - a lot of the competition won't do so many formats (tho Calibre will autoconvert them no matter what you get). Battery life is great, and the size makes it a lot more portable than the bigger ones. There should be plenty of the older models on ebay for a decent price now that the touch-screen version of the same thing is out at competitive prices. You'd probably have enough money left to get a leather cover with a led light built-in.

[AmishSamurai]

the one I have is called the Pandigital Novel. Those digital photo frame guys. It only runs pdf and epub, which is half the stuff out there, but pdfs don't format to the screen that well. I'd get the nook.

She reads novels like crazy but likes the idea of the net and such and I noticed I can get the Novel for less than $100.
But... if it's not that nice and wont read everything I'm thinking about splurging on the Kindle.
Any other, or more detailed, experiences with the Pandigital Novel?

Pros- light, feels comfortable to hold in landscape mode, simple, has basic browsing capability. Color LCD actually reads just as fine as e-ink IMO

Cons- I find myself using the buttons to switch pages over the touchscreen gestures, because those are a bit fiddly, pdfs take a while to format just right. Also, no support for mobi and lit files.