My latest gadget

I have recently treated myself to an Ebook reader, I have to say I was sceptical to start with, I love reading and I generally have enough time looking at Screens both in work and home life, so to be staring at another screen was a concern. But after now owning the reader for a month, I have to say I have really got into it.

The display is called e-ink, and it creates a high contrast view of text or graphics in black and white (kind of light grey), the image is very stable and it does feel paper like, to produce the image it uses no light so it's very easy on your eyes and also very low power consumption, though as usual not quite what the manufacturer quotes. It also works in the brightest sunlight, it actually becomes clearer the brighter the light.

You can view a number of different formats, I currently have text documents, PDF documents and the EPUB file format, but it can also display Word documents, RTF and a whole host of others, and it can store enough books for even the most avid reader to occupy them for at least 6 months, without updating.

It has a zoom function S, M or L, I tend to zoom to M, it makes it very readable.

So if you're thinking about getting one, go for it!

All the best

Barrie