Comments on: How Wireless E-Readers Stack Up

By: Staci D. Kramer

Staci D. Kramer — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:16:16 +0000

@ Jerry That's one reason we limited the field to this one category of e-readers.

@ Ed that's a different Sony model than the one we feature; it's not wireless but could work well for a lot of people who don't mind porting from computers.

@ Andrys Thanks for adding …

By: Jerry Limonta

Jerry Limonta — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:41:39 +0000

It's hard to keep up with these things flooding the market at the pace they have been. We are now highlighting over 20 readers in our community http://www.ereaderuniverse.com

By: Dan Entin

Dan Entin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:10:06 +0000

We review all the top eBook Readers side-by-side at ConsumerSearch: http://www.consumersearch.com/ebook-readers

By: Andrys Basten

Andrys Basten — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:38:56 +0000

Staci,
Good charts and info.

Wanted to add that in the 'browser' category, all countries with wireless capability and Kindle access have free 24/7 wireless access to Wikipedia, for what that is worth.
As you mention, only the U.S., Japan (and Hong Kong and Mexico) have the 24/7 free slow Kindle web browser, which is still useful for text-focused sites).

Also, the Kindles have text-to-speech, good for when you have to do other things but want to keep 'reading' and this works for personal docs and for periodicals also.
Random House limits most of its books w/regard to that though other publishers allow the text-to-speech for their books.

– Andrys
kindleworld.blogspot.com

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:31:01 +0000

Don't forget to consider a possible format war with Amazon's AZW going up against the open format ePub.

Here's an overview of the formats
http://www.retrevo.com/content/blog/2009/11/ebookreader-format-wars
and another roundup on e-book readers
http://www.retrevo.com/my/5875/article/11052958/Are-These-Kindle-Killers

By: ed dunn

ed dunn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:10:09 +0000

Sony e-readers are listed for $150 as a doorbuster item on leaked Black Fridays ads. Blackfriday.info has a few stores that will tout the Sony e-readers…