Nook, Kindle, Sony readers compared: Holiday e-book picks
One of the categories we've been fawning over for the entire year is e-readers. Their lovely e-ink displays are so easy on the eyes that with the holidays approaching, we wanted to pick the perfect unit. To do that, Eric Sandine, Iyaz Akhtar and myself strike up a convo about the ones that we're most excited about, and the ones we're least likely to pick up. The downside? Some of them still haven't officially hit the streets, or aren't available because they're sold out. The upside? We're still going to talk about our favs, in hopes we'll get some sort of holiday IOU, or the like.
I bought an Astak EZ Reader Pro with the 5-inch screen for christmas. The screen is great, it came with a leather cover and a 2GB SD card pre-loaded with 400 books – all for $200. The SD card is the real winner here – it allows me to download and manage files just like on my PC – no enless list of books in one folder. It reads more formats than any other reader, and you can get books from dozens of online vendors – not just one site
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