- E-ink readers seem to be coming down in price - Borders will be selling the 6 inch Kobo for 150 USD ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328438 ). There are also various recent, cheaper, models with 5-inch e-ink screens, but same 800x600 pixels, which I think will do fine for fiction.
- Elsewhere in these comments, jacoblyles said "I really can't wait until someone releases an eInk reader that can handle academic books and PDFs". In my opinion, the 10-inch e-ink readers do an acceptable job. I have a KindleDX, and PDFs of books, papers and theses can be read sequentially fine. Skipping around and jotting annotations are not so convenient ...
I have the Kindle DX also, and it's too low contrast and the type on most academic papers (that I read) is far too small.
I'm 25, so it's not as if it's my eyesight that's the problem.
On the other hand, reading them on my iPad with a tool like iAnnotate, I can not only make the text bigger, but mark the PDFs up with highlights, boxes, and notes (which are PDF format standards -- not special to the app itself). And transfer them over wifi.
- E-ink readers seem to be coming down in price - Borders will be selling the 6 inch Kobo for 150 USD ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328438 ). There are also various recent, cheaper, models with 5-inch e-ink screens, but same 800x600 pixels, which I think will do fine for fiction.
- Elsewhere in these comments, jacoblyles said "I really can't wait until someone releases an eInk reader that can handle academic books and PDFs". In my opinion, the 10-inch e-ink readers do an acceptable job. I have a KindleDX, and PDFs of books, papers and theses can be read sequentially fine. Skipping around and jotting annotations are not so convenient ...
Handy overview of devices: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix