Nearly all my tech books are on my iPad. Its a bit heavy, especially compared to the kindle. But the battery life is fine and I find it great to use. But all the others are good too, I'm sure.
But one huge piece of advice: make sure whatever you do end up with has a reader for *all* the formats. OReilly for example gives you pdf, epub, mobi, and sometimes the apk format. And it does make quite a difference. I hope the ebook format madness stops in the near future, Tom may be able to update us, but you should not get a device that will not read all the big three: pdf, mobi, epub (mobi is the kindle version and kindle reads it.) IIRC, the iPad book reader handles more than one format. And I think all devices have a pdf reader, either built in or as an app. I would try whatever you are considering, especially the various file formats. I'd beware of the kindle books themselves, at least for tech books, they do not come in the multiple formats and have many silly errors that are slowly being fixed. The kindle app is available everywhere, even as a webapp. -- Owen On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Gary Schiltz <[email protected]>wrote: > To me, it's debatable whether switching from hardcopy books to ebooks is a > net environmental plus. However, living down here in Ecuador makes it a > real pain in the butt to get hardcopies of technical books, especially in > English. So far, I've been reading PDFs on my laptop, but the screen is too > far from my face to really take advantage of its resolution. So, I'm > considering either an iPad or some sort of Android tablet. A smaller form > factor like Kindle Fire or Nexus 7 would be fine for material that can be > reformatted on the fly, but I really prefer pre-formatted PDF ebooks. I'm > afraid that a seven inch screen would be too small for most PDF ebooks. > Does anyone here use a tablet to read PDFs? I'd appreciate hearing of your > experiences. > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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