Comments on: Buyer Beware: Before You Buy a Kindle, Sony, or other Ebook Reader

By: Sara Rosso

Sara Rosso — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:16:22 +0000

@mehdi, PDF, Portable Document Format, by its very nature means that any formatting and special characters inside the document are preserved when read on different devices. The language shouldn’t matter.

By: mehdi

mehdi — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:59:45 +0000

Dose it supported Persian or Arabic languages or not ?
Can I open a PDF file on Perisn or Arabic language on it ?
Thank you

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:47:21 +0000

The Kindle is fantastic! I don’t know what others are saying, but I like mine.

By: meg-kindle3gwifi

meg-kindle3gwifi — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:23:35 +0000

Can’t seem to make a decision about these things. I’m such a big fan of real books. How good can you really see in the dark? I read sometimes read when my wife is sleeping. Not sure how many are backlit. I think they will all have some shortfalls.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:41:56 +0000

Hello friends, i jus wanted to know if ebooks downloaded from ANY site in a pdf format will work on Ebook readers???
Which ebook reader would ya prescribe me… coz i am livin in canada. I guess WiFi etc is required if ya wanna literally buy books. But what if you jus wanna copy ebooks downloaded from any site on ebook reader???

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:02:52 +0000

Nice article. What have you heard about or know about the ECTACO JetBook? Does a secure ebook and ebooks with DRM mean the same thing?

By: Fern Driscoll

Fern Driscoll — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:43:43 +0000

Sara – great article. We’ve been agonizing over an e-book reader all winter – would like to have one before coming back to Italy. Kindle seems the most limited. You don’t mention the Nook – and for good reason. The only way you can see one is to visit a Barnes and Noble store, and they’re back-ordered until Feb. But it might be an ok option, except for the fact that once you’re out of the US Canada area I think you can’t buy books (it’s the one we liked best after test-reading in various stores). And yes – we should just buy the books with drm – my 2 cents. You wouldn’t steal a book from a bookstore… why would you try over the net? (I don’t mean you you, obviously; I mean ‘one’.) My I-wonder of the day – if Google is going into the Notebook business, which it seems they are, can an e-book reader be far behind? Or incorporated in the notebook? And with G’s record of access, might it not be best of all? One can wait and wonder forever, though, and meanwhile wish one had a good book to read…