PDF Books Versus Paper Books

[tenkar]

yeah, the price on the Kindle 2 dropped by 60 bucks last week. I was credited a $60 dollar refund for the one i bought my g/f for her birthday. I bought it 29 days before the price chance, cut off for the price adjustment was 30 days

[tenkar]

Looks like there is some possibly completion in the ebook reader race. The new Sony basic reader will hit a price point of $199. It has PDF with reflow, so it might make a serviceable reader for RPGs - depends on how the reflow is and the set up of the PDF in question. It will hold 250 ebooks in its built in storage - do maybe 25-40 RPG PDFs?

More interesting IMHO is the Astak Pocket Pro also at $199. Unlike the Sony this is expandable up to 16 gigs with and SD card. It also has PDF reflow AND it includes a text to speech feature much like the new Kindles. If it reads PDFs I could go to sleep with RPG bedtime stories The Pocket Pro also handles more ebook formats then the Sony.

Should be interesting. Competition should bring prices down and newer and better features.

As an aside I'm not a big fan of PDF flow, but for under 200 bucks you get a reader that gives you access to your gaming PDFs. Probably not a perfect way to view it, but better then no way to view in a portable fashion. Oh, and a price less then half the Kindle DX.

How's that for a thread rez?