Shootout for back to college reading – cheap ebook reader vs cheap netbook

Now we’ve all got a cheap netbook – or if we haven’t we’ll surely be getting one before school or college starts again in a few weeks time. Wow how the hols have flown by!

And a lot of students use their netbook for absolutely everything.

Netbook for watching vids or movies, netbook for listening to music, netbook for typing assignments and essays, and especially netbook for reading books and coursework. Most texts are available in ebook versions nowadays, and most students – either at school or uni – have their texts on their netbook in ebook form – not to mention the latest Harry Potter!

But the key thing about an eink screen as opposed to even the best TFT displays is that the eink screen has no backlight. And no backlight equals no eyestrain. It’s just a fact that you can’t read for as long on your netbook as you can on anebook reader. And it’s also a fact that students have to do an awful lot of reading.

So compared with even the  best netbook displays like that on the Samsung N110 netbook (a fabulous netbook for students) it’s just less strain on the eye.

An ebook reader is smaller than a netbook, so you can pop it in your pocket, and carry it about everywhere. And since electronic books (ebooks) are minute compared with MP3s, your ebook reader can hold hundreds of books (or thousands with the optional SD card).

Plug the ebook reader into a USB port on your netbook upload your coursebooks, dictionaries , and you’re away. And because it only uses power when actually doijng  something like turning pages rather than reading,  your ebook reader needs charging once a week or less rather than every few hours as with the netbook.

It’s simply a matter of the right tools for the job. Watch vids, listen to MP3s, surf the net and Skype with your netbook. But do your all your coursework and leisure reading on your ebook reader. I don’t know many students now who don’t adopt this eye-friendly approach.

And as we posted earlier, we’ve got the cheapest place on the net Sony’sebook reader.

Buy one now and, you’ll be well prepared  for  back to college or back to school.  Check it out below.