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Battle of the Ebooks!!!

Amazon's "Kindle"  VS  Sony Reader

Macworld.com Review - Why Amazon's Kindle is revolutionary http://www.macworld.com/article/61186/2007/11/kindle.html

Cnet Review - Amazon Kindle http://reviews.cnet.com/e-book-readers/amazon-kindle/4505-3508_7-32751890.html

Cnet Review - Sony Reader http://reviews.cnet.com/e-book-readers/sony-reader-digital-book/4505-3508_7-32686067.html?tag=pdtl-list

With all the hype about palmtops and laptops going on for eons,  there's now finally something for us "lesser" geeks who just wana read something with out carrying 10 mags and 3-5 books in our bags.

I'll cut to the chase,  I'd go for the Kindle anytime.

why?

1)  The Kindle store has a much wider stock and growing rapidly. And more readily available because of its free wireless using high speed cellphone networks.

2)  It CAN read pdf.  But you'd need to convert it to a kindle friendly format which is available. And subsequently you can adjust the font size. Sony Reader can read PDFs but you can adjust the size.

3)  you have access to dictionaries, and can buy and add more dictionaries.

4) you have access to wikipedia

5) you can access not only blogs, but subscribe to periodicals on it as well.

6) it's a normal web-surfer!  tho u'd not be seeing jav-scripts, applets or flash scripted sites.

The bad about Kindle???

1) In singapore we'd still need to buy thru kindle store online our computers and download them as these networks are currently only american based.

2) I'd rather a choice between color based screen for web-surfing and then the kindle default screen for books.

3)  i'd also want a bigger internal hard drive and the ability to use my SD memory cards on it.

And worst,  it's only selling in america at the moment!

darnzzz...

Even by conservartive standards, Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013', has the EU summit to agree emission cut plan come too late?

EU set to agree emission cut plan - EU leaders meeting for their spring summit in Brussels are poised to agree on a timetable for cutting greenhouse gas emissions further.

Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013' - Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.

EU warns of climate change threat  - An EU report says climate change will have a growing impact on global security, multiplying existing threats such as shortages of food and water.

How do I express myself?  Going "I told you so" would be simple yet perfect form of presenting the issue.