[Gocamino] - Ultreya walking with tablets

[Grant Spangler]

I was tempted to get the Sony but then read the reviews, it seems to have some major stability issues. I ended up with the Nook simple touch, which is very lightweight and minimalist. The battery lasts much longer than the color versions and I put a 32 GB memory card in it for a humongous storage capacity. I found a way to make a very lightweight but durable case to prevent LCD mishaps as well. My Nook weighs about half as much as a single book, but I currently have 170 travel guides in it (Europe mostly). Carrying a single guide or a thousands guidebooks weighs the same, so take your entire travel library. The ePub books are more agile in small 7" readers, but PDFs are functional as well. My preference of the Nook over the Kindle was from an industry-standards point of view. Nooks read the ePub, the defacto standard in electronic publications, the Kindle does not. Amazon has their own proprietary eBook, the 'mobi'. You can even 'borrow' an ePub from your local public library, but not so with the mobi. I can read the same ePubs and PDFs in my unlocked iPhone, but the Nook's 7" screen is a bit more readable than the iPhone's 3" screen. If push came to shove, I'd take only the iPhone. Please note the CSJ has some publications available as Doc and PDF files. You may wish to repaginate these as they are set up for printing out on paper, not reading electronically. I've been meaning to call and discuss turning these into proper eBooks for them. Perhaps this week.   

Buen Camino, 
 
 
Grant
 
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