On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Philip Pemberton <piclist@philpem.me.uk> wrote:

> I've got a Sony Reader (PRS505) that I mainly use for reading sci-fi
> books on the bus/train (courtesy of the "Baen Free Library" on
> www.baen.com). It works pretty well for ePUB-format books, too -- the
> catch is that it seems to have been designed for reading (e.g.)
> paperback novels, so it doesn't do full-text searching
>
> Skimming big books tends to upset it a little, too. The ePUB version of
> "C++ In A Nutshell", for instance, repaginates to ~4000 screens worth of
> text. Going over a section break (or attempting to view a section you
> haven't looked at before) tends to make the Reader spin its wheels for a
> few seconds...
>

Hmm, the reader's performance seems to be lower than my
7.5-year-old HP Jornada 565 (Pocket PC 2002, 206MHz StrongARM
CPU). It is quite a good e-book reader. I mainly use it to read Chinese
Wu Xia (kung fu) novels. Amazingly the battery still works quite
well.  But I was reading some C++ books last time and it was very fast. ;-)


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