Comments on: Customized newspapers on e-books: Calibre cross-platform e-book subscription management http://www.drivelry.com/distributing-your-blog-to-kindle-sony-and-other-e-book-readers-calibre-cross-platform-e-book-subscription-management/543/ Publishing, tech and social media colliding messily Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:22:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mike http://www.drivelry.com/distributing-your-blog-to-kindle-sony-and-other-e-book-readers-calibre-cross-platform-e-book-subscription-management/543/comment-page-1/#comment-1619 mike Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:22:05 +0000 http://www.drivelry.com/?p=543#comment-1619 One comment I would have after using a Sony e book for a while is the importance of display size. E books are particularly great for reading long A4 PDF documents (for example Annual Reports) that you would normally have to print out. However these docs can often contain tables that cannot be 're-flowed' onscreen and still make sense. My feeling is therefore that I want a 10" screen. When these are available I'll buy one. Another comment relates to Calibre and 3G readers like the new iPad. With something like Calibre running your PC will spend a long time connected and sucking down content from the web. It doesn't matter if you don't actually read it because the data is effectively free with your home broadband connection. Any 3G equipped device where you are subject to volume-dependent data charges is a recipe for trouble IMHO as the nature of browsing and following links can lead you to all kinds of high-bandwidth rich media (including rich media ads). It would definitely annoy me to be paying data charges to read other people's ads... One comment I would have after using a Sony e book for a while is the importance of display size. E books are particularly great for reading long A4 PDF documents (for example Annual Reports) that you would normally have to print out. However these docs can often contain tables that cannot be ‘re-flowed’ onscreen and still make sense.

My feeling is therefore that I want a 10″ screen. When these are available I’ll buy one.

Another comment relates to Calibre and 3G readers like the new iPad. With something like Calibre running your PC will spend a long time connected and sucking down content from the web. It doesn’t matter if you don’t actually read it because the data is effectively free with your home broadband connection.

Any 3G equipped device where you are subject to volume-dependent data charges is a recipe for trouble IMHO as the nature of browsing and following links can lead you to all kinds of high-bandwidth rich media (including rich media ads). It would definitely annoy me to be paying data charges to read other people’s ads…

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