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2009-03-23
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2009-03-23
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Originally Posted by GeraldKo
I have the exact opposite experience. Reading on my N800 is hampered mainly by the lack of transreflective screen which makes reading in anything but a dim room quite fatiguing. I have no problems reading on my iPhone in all kinds of lighting, indoors and out, and as for the Kindle app, changing font sizes is trivial.
I was surprised that I really like reading on my N800. Then I tried doing it on an iPod Touch, but my eyes fatigued from the lack of pixel density. Last week I briefly tried a Kindle 2, and I was surprised to find its contrast too low for my satisfaction. Maybe contrast is adjustable, but my cousin -- its owner -- didn't think so.
As I alluded earlier, though, I'm not doing heavy-duty reading on the iPhone, just a chpater or two here or there, which come to think of it is how I read even with a book. Short attention span, maybe...
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2009-03-23
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Originally Posted by Wes Doobner
It all fits. I've done all my N800 reading in a dim room or dim airplane. I tried different font sizes on the Kindle 2, but except at a too-large size, it didn't satisfy my desire for contrast.
I have the exact opposite experience. Reading on my N800 is hampered mainly by the lack of transreflective screen which makes reading in anything but a dim room quite fatiguing. I have no problems reading on my iPhone in all kinds of lighting, indoors and out, and as for the Kindle app, changing font sizes is trivial.
As I alluded earlier, though, I'm not doing heavy-duty reading on the iPhone, just a chpater or two here or there, which come to think of it is how I read even with a book. Short attention span, maybe...
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2009-03-23
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I love to snuggle down under the covers with a good book on my N800. It beats the old days when I used a flashlight to do the same thing 
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2009-03-24
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After knocking back a chapter or so on a Kindle 2g when I was staying over at a friends house the other day, I must say that I am pretty impressed by the e-ink. I still don't find it extremely more readable than the N810. I can't imagine the ipod touch/iphone being any different if not even worse due to lower pixel density.
The great thing that I love about my N810 is how small it is to handle and how perfectly it sits in my hand. On a crowded subway I can easily use it one handed and tucked close to me with my thumb on the pg+pg- rocker, which is more than I can say about the Kindle 2 and probably even the iphone.
The kindle is a great piece of kit, but I am more jealous of the marketplace on it than anything. I hate grappling with de-DRMing books that I have purchased. I have no qualms paying for a good book.
The great thing that I love about my N810 is how small it is to handle and how perfectly it sits in my hand. On a crowded subway I can easily use it one handed and tucked close to me with my thumb on the pg+pg- rocker, which is more than I can say about the Kindle 2 and probably even the iphone.
The kindle is a great piece of kit, but I am more jealous of the marketplace on it than anything. I hate grappling with de-DRMing books that I have purchased. I have no qualms paying for a good book.
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2009-03-24
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Originally Posted by mobiledivide
Judging by this comment, I assume that you haven't seen an ebook on the iPhone. This whole pixel density thing is a false argument. The font rendering is really perfectly fine on the iPhone, it's at least as good as my N800, and the transreflective screen bests the N800 for reading - for me. The only time I have noticed an issue with pixels is when surfing the web on non-iPhone optimized websites, the N8XX blows away the iPhone in that instance.
I can't imagine the ipod touch/iphone being any different if not even worse due to lower pixel density.
The great thing that I love about my N810 is how small it is to handle and how perfectly it sits in my hand. On a crowded subway I can easily use it one handed and tucked close to me with my thumb on the pg+pg- rocker, which is more than I can say about the Kindle 2 and probably even the iphone.
Anyway, I don't want to be accused of overhyping the competition, or of taking the thread too far from it's topic... but for ebooks the iPhone holds it's own perfectly well against at least the N800.
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2009-03-31
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this thread is pushing me to go get kindle, but its really ex