“When I reviewed Sony Reader, an e-ink e-book reader, I mentioned a slight flicker on the screen when it refreshed pages. Here’s a video of that, and here’s all our prior coverage. Despite the flicker, it’s still a pretty little toy that’ll make a great present for the voracious reader and technophile in your family” – Gizmodo.
Gizmodo’s take on the Sony Reader and the page-turning debate (video included)
AMAZON
A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
If that is real time, page changing is reasonably quick? Presumably that is not a pdf then?
Presumably not. Besides, as noted, this is a debate. On my Librie the between-pages speed left something to be desired, but I am open to the possibility that Sony got it fast enough for the Reader. Thanks. – David
I was playing with the Reader @ the Sony store in the La Canterra mall in San Antonio yesterday, and I was fairly impressed. The page-flicker doesn’t seem that big of a deal to me, personally. Unfortunately I didn’t have my memory card with me with all my unread PDFs on it at the time to test the PDF viewer.
I’ll try it on Monday.
Hey, Cerebus, keep us posted on how the Reader does with your card. Thanks. David
PDF files have considerable overhead compared to the BBeB, rtf or plain text files the reader is really optimized for, so performance will not be as good. Image PDFs will be even worse, but given the small size of the screen I don’t expect people using it for that purpose much.
Page turning time is quite reasonable, and so far nobody who actually owns one opf these things has made much of a stink about the page flash. When I actually get into reading something I don’t notice it anymore.
Interesting. If that is the real speed for text files, it certainly seems to turn pages faster than you can do it manually – although for paper you only have one turn per two pages. They also ‘flash’ through your vision of course when turning it, so that is not a lot different unless it went neon pink or blared like a crazy ad?