[Gllug] ebook readers for technical books

[Simon Morris]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:52 +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:

> Is there anything out yet that's good for reading technical books in PDF
> format?
> 
> It's not worth it to me if all I can read on them is novels - but if I can
> use one for work that's a different story.

I have a Sony PRS-505 reader.. I use it mainly for technical books (see
my question below) and it's usable but not flawless.

PDF books are rendered fairly well, but if your document is diagram or
screenshot heavy then you find that the flow of the book becomes a
little confusing when it has to do a page break for the diagram.

These are annoyances rather than show stoppers though. The Sony reader
handles PDFs natively (as opposed to the older Kindle readers) as well
as txt files.

Calibre [0] handles synchronisation nicely.

Here's a related question.. I would *love* to buy ebooks from the
Internet to read on my Sony but as far as I can see you need either
Windows or Mac software to do so, certainly from Waterstones.

Does anyone have a Free Software friendly ebook vendor they could
recommend?

Thanks

~sm


[0] http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/

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