I need a portable e-book reader for reading out of copyright books which are available from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive. I find reading long texts from a big computer screen very tiresome and I want to save the money it would take to buy ridiculously expensive print-on-demand editions. These e-books are usually available in plain text format, so I need a simple portable reader which I can easily upload these on. It would need to have a clear, easy-on-the eyes display and a screen at least 6″ tall (preferably 7 or 8). Do you think you can recommend me something like that? I’m really quite clueless when it comes to these modern gadgets so any advice would be much appreciated.

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I have been using the Sony eReader. £200 from Waterstones. Works fine with Plain text files. I had loaded some Gutenberg texts on a SD card, with the eReaderStraightt out of the box I just put the card in an 5 minutes later was reading. The screen is onlky 5″ high , but that means it will fit a coat pocket.




One Response to “A simple portable e-book reader, just for reading plain text files?”

  1. HARRY N Says:

    I have been using the Sony eReader. £200 from Waterstones. Works fine with Plain text files.
    I had loaded some Gutenberg texts on a SD card, with the eReaderStraightt out of the box I just put the card in an 5 minutes later was reading. The screen is onlky 5" high , but that means it will fit a coat pocket.
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