ebook readers - Sony wifi PRS-T1

[watervole]

 I got my ebook reader for Xmas, and very shiny it is too.

The thing that most impressed me (and is still my favourite feature) is the excellent dictionary.

First thing I did was to try it on the word that the Kobo failed on.

The Sony came up trumps.  I don't know if it has the entire OED, but it certainly has a very good chunk of it.  'Pattered' came up with not just a good clear definition, but also several examples of how the word is used, such as the patter of rain and the colloquial meaning of 'the patter of tiny feet'.  Every word I've tried has come out fine, with a clear and easy to follow definition.   (It also has discussions on words that get confused, like lie and lay)

Where a word isn't in the dictionary, like a place name, then I can use the wi-fi to connect to Wikipedia.  This isn't fast, but it works just fine and  I deliberately bought this as an ebook reader that can also peek at the web on occasion, rather than as a computer that also happens to read books.

I've just made a donation to Project Gutenberg, as I seem to have downloaded about 30 books - which, impressively, only fill a tiny fraction of the ebook reader's capacity.

I welcome suggestions for books that I really ought to add to the collection.

(Current reading - The Jungle Book)

Comments

[kerravonsen]

I have a question: if you have a HTML file downloaded onto the reader, can it read it? I'm rather confused about the specs of the Sony, because it has a web-browser, but doesn't list HTML as an ebook format that it understands.

[kerravonsen]

As for books to add to the collection, check the Baen Free Library (http://www.baen.com/library/) there's some good SF&F there.
Christopher Anvil, Lois McMaster Bujold, Eric Flint, Elizabeth Moon, Andre Norton, David Weber...

Good resource for finding free ebooks: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Free_eBooks

As for authors to check out...

Louisa May Alcott
Hans Christian Andersen
Jane Austen
J.M. Barrie
Frank Baum
the Brontes
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Karel Capek
Lewis Caroll
G.K. Chesterton
Daniel Defoe
Arthur Conon Doyle
H Rider Haggard
Rudyard Kipling (though you're obviously already doing that)
Jack London
George MacDonald
E Nesbit
Mary Shelley
EE Doc Smith
Jonathan Swift
Jean Webster
H.G. Wells

Gacked from my e-reader

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

Andrew Lang's fairy books.

Carroll, Twain, Stevenson. Chesterton, Kipling, Verne, Wells to taste. Bierce, Dickens, Melville, Poe if you must.

Oddities I have found:

"The Coming Race" - Edward Bulmer Lytton
"Varney the vampire" - Thomas Preskett Prest
"We" - Yvegeny Zamyatin

Moving onto more modern stuff:

The fifth imperium (http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/) has legal backups of all the Baen free CDs. There's more than just MilPr0n there.

Cory Doctorow (http://craphound.com/) provides free downloads of his books.

Diane Duane and Peter Morwood (http://ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com/) sell their ebooks direct (and run frequent promotions just for the hell of it).
























































Three men in a boat

[julesjones]

Further to the comment above re: Baen, I would remind you that the entire Vorkosiverse is available on a CD, legally.

Such of EF Benson's books as are on Gutenberg.

Flatland was available as text-only on Gutenberg some years ago, but may have an illustrated version by now.

I really ought to have been tagging my book log posts with Project Gutenberg where appropriate. :-(

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I see we have very similar reading tastes. I've already got Andrew Lang in total and several others on your list. thanks for hte link to 5th Imperium. Have now added ebook copies of all the Vorkosigan books to go with my existing paper copies.