Coach
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Rich, it shows 182MB connected as a USB drive. The books I have on it range from .5MB to 2.3MB each. You can also add a SD memory card, for up to another GB.
Nords, I'll do the best I can on answers. I'm 56 with a touch of presbyopia, though I do most of my reading without glasses. The contract seems fine to me. I'm doing most of my reading at the default font size. The display works on reflected light so it really seems like paper. Like reading a paper book, I like having decent reading light. The more ambient light, the better. I spent several hours stretched out on the couch reading this weekend, without eye strain.
On copying the books off the CD, it depends on the format they're in. Support for PDFs is "experimental". It's probably not very good with PDFs since they're so page oriented. .txt files and "unprotected" mobipocket files can be copied right over. .DOC and .HTML files can be converted into Amazon's format and loaded. .txt files with returns at the end of every line can look pretty bad.
On the magazines and blogs, I can't tell you for sure since I haven't subscribed, but my guess is that they come as Amazon's own .AZW format, like books from Amazon. .AZW is apparently a lot like the mobipocket format.
Notes and annotations are made by using the thumb keyboard at the bottom, and show up as an icon at the end of a line that you can expand. Typing is painful -- you won't want to write much. You can also highlight text, which puts a box around it on the display, or bookmark, which dog-ears the page on the display. You can jump to a bookmark; they're labelled with the first line of the text they are associated with.
This could be another heartbreaker. My reaction is that it's a great way to read a book. It's not very competent at much else.
Coach
Nords, I'll do the best I can on answers. I'm 56 with a touch of presbyopia, though I do most of my reading without glasses. The contract seems fine to me. I'm doing most of my reading at the default font size. The display works on reflected light so it really seems like paper. Like reading a paper book, I like having decent reading light. The more ambient light, the better. I spent several hours stretched out on the couch reading this weekend, without eye strain.
On copying the books off the CD, it depends on the format they're in. Support for PDFs is "experimental". It's probably not very good with PDFs since they're so page oriented. .txt files and "unprotected" mobipocket files can be copied right over. .DOC and .HTML files can be converted into Amazon's format and loaded. .txt files with returns at the end of every line can look pretty bad.
On the magazines and blogs, I can't tell you for sure since I haven't subscribed, but my guess is that they come as Amazon's own .AZW format, like books from Amazon. .AZW is apparently a lot like the mobipocket format.
Notes and annotations are made by using the thumb keyboard at the bottom, and show up as an icon at the end of a line that you can expand. Typing is painful -- you won't want to write much. You can also highlight text, which puts a box around it on the display, or bookmark, which dog-ears the page on the display. You can jump to a bookmark; they're labelled with the first line of the text they are associated with.
This could be another heartbreaker. My reaction is that it's a great way to read a book. It's not very competent at much else.
Coach
If you look at the five-star reviews at the Amazon site and multiply by four, you have my attitude. Mine arrived Dec. 18: SO and my cat became very jealous but the cat recovered, she must assume now that it is an extension of my hand. The browser is great for me as I have no other personal internet connection--this is my first proto-type device and it's been a lot of fun so far, its more pleasant than reading on a computer monitor. The photos in books look fine by my standards, the highlighting function is terrific, I read the local newspaper over the internet, and once I get used to it, it should work great as a reference library.
