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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > The eReader Megathread: Yes, all publishers hate Canada
 
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The Illusive Man
Mar 27, 2008

~savior of yoomanity~
Does Borders still display Sony readers, or are they exclusively pushing the Kobo now? It's been a while since I've been in a store.

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The Illusive Man
Mar 27, 2008

~savior of yoomanity~

Daric posted:

How often do you guys read pdf's? I only deal with them when reading a restaurant's menu online sometimes.

Hope you never plan on graduate school. :smith:

For PDF reading, I'm just planning on an iPad whenever the second gen releases this spring. I'll keep the Kindle around for book reading, though - I just love having a little, light device that reads books exclusively - too many features can prove easily distracting for me. :shobon:

Duckman2008 posted:

Very smart move on the iPad, my biggest beef is Apple always screws over people who buy the 1st Gen of their product.

What? How so?

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The Illusive Man
Mar 27, 2008

~savior of yoomanity~

Guilty posted:

Probably. a Tablet or e-reader of some sort will definitely make life infinitely easier for students. It's already pretty bad that I've got to pack a backpack and a messenger bag once or twice a week. Can't wait till I just need that kindle.

edit: I can really only speak for literature studies, but very frequently we're required to have a ton of books on hand in order to facilitate discussions or conferences, or even if we're doing the research it's a lot easier to have the primary source on hand. schlepping around a bag full of books is no fun at all.

I think it'd be a lot more useful for a literature student. Trying to read a scientific paper on a 6" Kindle is frustrating at best, though.

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The Illusive Man
Mar 27, 2008

~savior of yoomanity~
Personally, if I'm willing to pay $380 for a large screen reader, I'd rather pony up the extra $120 and get an iPad. It's an option, though.

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The Illusive Man
Mar 27, 2008

~savior of yoomanity~
Ooof, page numbers are something I've wanted on my Kindle for ages now and yet I'm on a Kindle 2. Is there any hope? :smith:

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