Sony E-Reader
I finally broke down and purchased a little piece of hardware that I’ve had my hands on for years: it’s the Sony PRS-505 portable reader. It’s really nice, so far: it can hold about 160 books, and you can get something like 7,000 flips of the page before you have to recharge the device.
The screen uses this nifty e-ink stuff that reacts to artificial light sources like regular paper does, so bright light actually adds clarity rather than glare. The device has an operating system very similar to iPod in that you load books into your computer’s library and then import them to the device’s flash drive. I greatly preferred this device’s open format as contrasted to the closed system offered by the Amazon Kindle.
I greatly prefer dead-tree books, but I had a need for this device for business reasons: people send me e-books to peruse before publication when I’m readying publicity campaigns for their titles, and reading on my laptop is awful.
Now that I have this thing, I want e-books to fill it, and I’m wondering where to find free books of a fantasy/sf bent. It seemed like at one time I had an entire inbox full of PDFs, and now they’re few and precious. So I’m looking to you for suggestions to specific sites and authors who offer downloadable editions of their books in any format.
And also, what about your own e-book consumption? Do you use them? Like them? Love them? Hate them?
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Cory Doctorow still gives away his works: http://craphound.com/
and then there’s always Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
I have the older model Sony, it is OK. I recently read Orwell’s 1984 on it and I had to charge the battery twice while reading it. I think the battery is bunk.
I love the screen, but the software sucks. I am on a Mac and it is difficult at best to get stuff on and off the device. In general I love the concept of eReaders but have, as of yet, to see one that I really love.
Check out ManyBooks lots of stuff and you can get the books formatted for the Sony Reader which makes them look a lot better.
Here is a good place to start!
Seriously, the eBook site is a good place to start, as is Fictionwise (not sure about their formats, tho).
Does the Sony eReader handle PDFs all right?
7000 flips – it’s fake. My sony still alive only for 1000…