Kobo ereader for £49.00 (free collect from store or £2.95 delivery) @ Asda direct
Out of stock at the moment....
Saw this in the metro this morning. Cheapest around
Colour - Onyx
Operating System - Linux (custom)
Storage Capacity - 1GB holds 1000 Books, expandable up to 10,000 eBooks with a 32 GB SD Memory Card
Memory Card Slot - Yes - SD
Headphone Socket - No
Battery - Rechargable Lithium Polymer
Weight - 221 g
Screen Size (inch) - 6 Inches
Screen Type - E Ink
USB Port - 1 x USB Port
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Jump to unread Post a CommentOr if you have a smart phone use your phone to create a wireless hotspot and connect your ereader via your phone....
True, but that can (and likely will with roaming data on your phone) cost money, and presumes coverage at the time of reading.
This way even with a low trickle of a 3G connection in the hotel, you can go off during the day without needing any connectivity or it cost money as the 3G is free in many places for the Kindle.
Anyway I found it useful on a recent trip. YMMV.
The other neat thing about the KIndles is you don't have to have the Kindle connected to your PC.
My Mrs often has the Kindle with her, or by the bed. So I just email books, artiles to the device via email. Thats why for now I'd always get a Kindle. The 3G and the WiFi+Email sending is too useful.
I think, before you rush out and buy any of these items, whatever the cost is, you should try them side by side. This can be done in most large electronic stores like Currys or Comet etc (sorry if this sounds a bit basic but I think it's needed here). Personally I found the kindle to be far more responsive and easier on the eye to read. You may come to a different opinion but don't think for a minute that your opinion is fact.
Edited By: listerdude on Apr 01, 2012 08:50
I think I'm gonna go for one of those, they seem to be good.
Anyway I found it useful on a recent trip. YMMV.
The other neat thing about the KIndles is you don't have to have the Kindle connected to your PC.
My Mrs often has the Kindle with her, or by the bed. So I just email books, artiles to the device via email. Thats why for now I'd always get a Kindle. The 3G and the WiFi+Email sending is too useful.
All boils down to how much you use it and many people have data packages for their phones. But if anyone is thinking of buying 3g version of the new kindle touch I'd investigate the 3g access a bit more as (unlike the keyboard kindles) it may have restricted 3g access - this was a statement from Amazon back in Oct so things may have changed.
We apologize for the confusion. Our new Kindle Touch 3G enables you to connect to the Kindle Store, download books and periodicals, and access Wikipedia – all over 3G or Wi-Fi. Experimental web browsing (outside of Wikipedia) on Kindle Touch 3G is only available over Wi-Fi.
As for wireless transfer of books I use dropbox (worth having a look at) to send things to my Sony - only use the usb lead for charging or the occasional update.
Edited By: gari189 on Apr 01, 2012 20:55: update
Not sure about 'poor man's kindle'. In my opinion the Kobo (I have the touch) is better than the Kindle. Expandable memory, excellent touch, allow you to use epub which is open source so you are not restricted to buying just from amazon. Pdf's are also displayed superbly.
I agree better than kindle, oddballjamie problery got an iphone aswell;)
I also agree the Touch is amazing. Hubby has the Vox and loves that, but I adore my Touch - and it takes sooo many formats, its styling is nicer than the kindle and the price is great too.
Is the touch that much better than the kindle for handling PDF's?
None of the 6" ereaders handle PDF's very well as the screen is too small (though I *think* the Sony PRS-T1 is the best of the e-readers for PDFs). If you are mainly going to be reading PDF's (unless you can find a second hand Kindle DX), you're probably better getting a tablet.
It all depends what you mean by 'PDFs' - it's a bit complicated.
My wife's got a Kobo Wifi (this one) and reads a mixture of EPUBs for pleasure (no problems at all) and PDFs for work. Firstly, PDFs really need to be converted to EPUB before you can read them and with many, just doing that with Calibre is good enough. However, if the PDF has a lot of tables or diagrams or other complex formatting, then it might require a two-step process, firstly PDF to Word/RTF/HTML and then Word/RTF/HTML to EPUB. The second step is handled by Calibre. There are some online PDF conversion websites that can do a reasonable job of the first step, but I'm lucky enough to have a copy of Acrobat at work, which does a really good job of converting even quite complex PDFs into files which Calibre has no problem putting onto the Kobo.
So the short answer is that it depends what sort of PDFs you want to put on your eBook reader and what sort of tools you have available to do it.
All boils down to how much you use it and many people have data packages for their phones.
Whilst most people have data packages using your phone abroad is almost always excluded from them though, unless you specially went for a plan with international data roaming which very few people will have. It'll cost you about £6 per MB outside of Europe (for Three and O2 at least, and I know O2 cap this at a maximum charge of £40 per trip) so it's very easy to run up a fair sized bill, hence the appeal of the Kindle's free 3G.
Loads on eBay for about a fiver delivered in PU leather with a free LED lamp chucked in. Add about a quid or so if you want the same from Amazon.
I think I'm gonna go for one of those, they seem to be good.
I assume you'll need to pay import duty on that device, though...
DealExtreme have one for £2.30 which fits pretty the Kobo pretty well. SKU is 47048.
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