You Don’t Need a Kindle 2 / Kindle DX To Read e-books, May Be You Need An Asus EEEPC Tablet

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You Don’t Need a Kindle 2 / Kindle DX To Read e-books, May Be You Need An Asus EEEPC Tablet

With the release of kindle for PC (kindle for Mac coming soon) you don’t need a kindle or iphone/ipodtouch to buy kindle e-books from amazon. If you travel a lot, and love to read novels for a long time a $259 kindle 2 price is now better; but if you need to read a lot of PDF e-books, or technical e-books, or even e-textbook, then kindle dx with a price tag $489 is way too expensive given that pdf e-books on kindle dx lack annotation, dictionary support etc. If you’re ready to spend $40-$50 more then you can buy Asus eeePC T91 Tablet with Win XP/Windows 7. The main features of the device are:

1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 Processor
1GB of DDR2 RAM, 1 Slot, 2GB Max
32GB Solid State Drive + 500GB Free Eee Storage
8.9-Inch Touch LED LCD Display; Multi-Touch Functionality; Bluetooth; wifi; 3G;
Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit) Operating System; 5 Hour Battery Life

If you go for 16GB one with winXP, that’s even cheaper, cheaper than kindle dx. Given the lack of flexibility with e-ink devices, and high price tag, and the fact is that the market for a perfect e-Reader still in infancy, it seems to me a good deal to go for such tablet devices, or UMPC devices in the same price range, or even cheaper.

Here is a video review (this is T91, not multitouch T91MT) :

Here is another one T91MT Multitouch:

Eastbiz Corp.

ASUS Eee PC T91MT-PU17-WT Tablet White Netbook – 5 Hour Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)

Here is Multitouch demo:

ASUS Eee PC Touch T91 8.9-Inch Black Tablet Netbook- 5 Hour Battery Life

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2 Responses for “You Don’t Need a Kindle 2 / Kindle DX To Read e-books, May Be You Need An Asus EEEPC Tablet”

yeah but says:

November 20, 2009 at 12:03 am

That’s all well and good, but have you ever noticed the difference between reading a book and reading on an LCD screen? That is what you pay extra for by buying an e-reader. The difference is simply too significant to compare them as you did.
admin says:

November 21, 2009 at 7:54 am

I totally agree with you. That’s why I said if you want to read technical paper (might be in PDF format) then eInk devices are not adequate. But if you want to read something text-based then such eInk devices are okay.