Matthew's Journal

We have a 3rd-generation Kindle, which I mostly use to read the Hugo shortlist each year; I find myself thinking it might be useful for novellas and other odds and ends I'd like to read without necessarily wanting to own a dead-tree copy of.

A recent half-price offer on a Kindle Paperwhite caused me to wonder if having an e-reader each might not be such a terrible idea, which then made me think whether the Paperwhite was the right e-reader or if I should consider alternatives. 30 seconds googlingDetailed research led me instead to the Kobo range, which seem to offer larger screens & storage (and more waterproofing) for less money.

Any opinions? I like the real buttons on the existing Kindle, and the fact I can just mount it as USB mass storage and put ebooks on it thus. I don't care about the lack of light (and like the fact it doesn't give off light, IYSWIM). I dislike that page-turning is a bit slow, that it's not running Free Software, and the tie-in to Amazon (though the fact I can feed it books over USB ameliorates that).