Re:Amazon Kindle 2 pictures and pricing
by jm4 on Sunday February 08, 2009 @10:50AM
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At $699, the iRex also costs nearly twice as much as a Kindle and about three times what you can get a PRS505 for. I have no doubt the 8 inch screen is great, but that's a pretty big jump in price-- especially when you consider that the Kindle is already priced too high for many consumers.
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Re:Amazon Kindle 2 pictures and pricing
by ktharavaad on Sunday February 08, 2009 @03:48PM
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Yes, the iRex is prohibitively expensive but if you buy the 1st edition while its on sale, you can get it for around $100 cheaper than that.
In the end, I justified the purchase because of the features I'm getting over the other 2 readers. - The sony and kindle both have a 800x600 screen while the iRex has a 1024x768. - The iRex also has a wacom stylus embedded into the screen which you can take notes with - The iRex is open-sourced, the developer released the SDK a while ago and there is a bunch of 3rd party free software for it.
However, I can definitely see how the iRex can be overpriced for some people and the sony and kindle could be a better fit for them.
A good resource for ebook reader information is http://www.mobileread.com/ (i'm not affiliated with them in any way) . You can read other people's experiences with them and find out which reader is right for you.