I bought an Astak EZ Ebook Reader last year because I wanted something open-sourced that read Epub and PDF files. It's not color, but I really have liked it - quite light, comes with an expansion slot up to 32 GB, and runs forever without needing to be charged.
I see that Astak, though it seemed to get good reviews just last year when they rolled out the last model, is now out of the ereader business.
I might be in the market for another ereader - perhaps color this time. I don't want a proprietary reader that I have to purchase books from a certain store. I am ambivalent about bells and whistles - I just want the reader for books.
So a question to you all -what ereader do you use and/or what ereader do you recommend?
Ipad. I have one iand it works well. There are plenty of apps that read epub and it is easy to find free epubs. Let me know and maybe I can give you the hook up.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna get a new Ipad. You can buy a refurb from apple for 349 bucks if you want 1st generation. Apple warantees refurbs for a full year, so I'd buy from them. Beats sending money to Bill Gates for larger class sizes.
ReplyDeleteMy Astak uses Linux, so no money went to Bill Gates.
ReplyDeleteI know I'm in the minority here, but I don't like Apple stuff at all. I bought an Ipod and hated the thing - the way it was designed, the way it synchs. It was a piece of shit - it started to go bust after just about a year.
I have an Android-based thing now, much better design, much better sound and you don't have to synch. I can just add files to it - plus because it is so large, I can use FLAC files - the sound quality is SO MUCH BETTER than the Ipod I had.
I understand the animosity about Gates, NYC, and I share it with you. But I feel similar hostility toward Jobs.
Read this story and you just might feel the same way too:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285980/Revealed-Inside-Chinese-suicide-sweatshop-workers-toil-34-hour-shifts-make-iPod.html
Gates is evil and not enough bad stuff can happen to him.
Jobs, however, is evil too.
He's a Buddhist, and if there is any justice in the world, he will come back as an Ipad worker at a Chinese slave labor factory that manufactures Apple products.