Comments on: Amazon Kindle Reader 4 vs Nook 2 vs Sony Reader – thorough comparison

By: grace cassar

grace cassar — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:33:44 +0000

Hi, A friend bought my husband an Amazon kindle for christmas from the UK, but unfortunately he only reads books in Dutch, si it possible to buy ebooks to download on his kindle? Many thanks for your help.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:41:10 +0000

I have a Sony eReader and a Kindle. I would like to be able to purchase some classics such as the Illiad in Italian. Does anyone know how I can do that?

As far as comparing the two readers, I like the look and feel of the Sony much more than the Kindle. The keyboard on the Kindle is more difficult for me to use and I find the touchscreen on the Sony similar to my iPhone so it did not take me long to get used to it.

The contrast on the Sony is not as good as I would like but it is not a problem. I have tried to find books that I might be interested in on Google Reader, but most of them are .pdf format and really don’t display very well on the Sony.

I’ll share more as I use them over the next few months.

By: david

david — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:12:19 +0000

The information was helpful even though a difference of opinion can at times puzzle but you get an idea of the needs and wants,I live in Canada and will be able to handle the product in the Sony store though leaning towards the Kindle it would be nice to handle said product

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:58:14 +0000

I want to pick up what will be my first e-reader. Does anyone know whether Amazon’s newspaper subscriptions will work on a Nook or Sony reader? There are a couple of U.S. dailies I’m interested in, but they’re only available at Amazon. Why not just buy a Kindle? Because Kindles don’t offer memory expansion via SD or micro SD cards. While Kindle memories are substantial, the ability to interchange content via memory cards is something I want in a reader.

By: Tommye McGinnis

Tommye McGinnis — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:38:48 +0000

Can you tell me which (if any) of the readers: (1) play WMA files, (2) play WMA files at a bit rate of 32 kbps, (3) play protected WMA files. I want a reader that will play materials from RFB&D. The reader must be able to do all of these. Thank you.

By: Megs

Megs — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:28:22 +0000

Hi
can anyone tell me which device is good for reading non-proprietary material? I have a huge collection on ebooks in .doc and .pdf formats, but I’m not sure about copyrights.
i live in india and I’m planning to get an ebook reader for myself through a relation staying in USA. please guide me whether kindle/sony support these kind of documents.

By: frank

frank — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:02:44 +0000

I have a Sony PRS-505 for nearly 18 month. I use the reader only to read scientific papers converted to epub format with tools you can find on the internet. I also now bought a kindle 3, mainly because of the advertised better e-ink quality. Access to the Sony or amazon store are not relevant to me. I can confirm, the contrast of the amazon devise is clearly better comapred to the Sony, in particular with smaller fonts. The kindle is faster although, I like personaly the slow page turn. The Kindle has more option in particular font size and line spacing, which helps to improve the reading quality.
However, the kindle built quality is far inferior to the Sony. It feels like a toy. The keys a difficult to use and the labelling looks like it will not last for long.
So overall (for me) there is not much going for the Kindle (if you have already a e-reader) apart from the better e-ink contrast
I will send the Kindle back.

PS: The web-browser is not worth to mention, slow and many pages can’t be displayed.
I use ‘calibre’ to manage my documents,

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:07:50 +0000

I have just received my Kindle 3 from Amazon and frankly am very impressed with the quality and operation of the unit. Free 3g is a bonus, coupled with wifi makes comms fairly comprehensive. What swayed me to choose the Kindle was the fact this is a tool, mainly to read books and other publications, and Amazon have one of the widest choices of reading matter at often significantly lower prices than competitors. This coupled with 1.8 million free publications swung it for me. A convenient extra is subscription to a newspaper which is downloaded daily to your device, a nice touch. Battery life is impressive and a free internet browse facility (albeit with limited functionality) is not to be sniffed at. I haven’t seen mentioned here what happens when you switch the kindle off; you get an image displayed on the screen, usually a greyscale painting or a bust of an author, a really nice touch, imho. Have just taken receipt of a kindle case whilst writing this and am again very impressed with the quality of the non-backlit case. I had a bit of a struggle to fit the tabs in the case to the kindle frame, but once pushed home I felt confident the device was not going to slip from the case. Overall a quality piece of equipment. I can live with no battery replacement, no extendable memory (3,500 publications is probably sufficent for me), bearing in mind you can remove publications when you are finished with them and reload from the archived facility on the Amazon server, why would I need extendable memory? I am having difficulty understanding what competition the Kindle has in the market place, from an overall package point of view. To prospective purchasers, buy it, you won’t regret it!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:15:29 +0000

Sandra,

Watersones have all sony accessories heavily discounted at minute, I bought cover with light for 10.99.

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:00:56 +0000

Sandra, for the Sony there is a special book cover with a built in light. It comes with batteries and works great. Not in the least bit cumbersome, and its not going to fall off. Before buying check around for prices, I got mine at Office Depot. Good Luck!