Are You Still Reading on Paper?

A few years ago if you asked me what books I had read in the last 15 years, I could tell the title of two I had read. I have since moved to a city that allows for public transportation. I began reading to pass the time while on the train, but soon got hooked. I did get annoyed pretty quick about how much room books take up in your house as well as your bag to and from work. Another thing that was really difficult was standing on a bus or train that is packed with people, and trying to flip the page without falling over! This lead me to begin my research on the eBook readers that people have been talking about.

There are really two brands of eBook readers that are ready for prime time, the Amazon Kindle, and the Sony Reader. I did my research and I finally decided to go with the Sony Reader PRS-505.

The two main reasons that went with the Sony PRS-505 over the Amazon Kindle are:

1. The Sony is thinner than the Amazon Kindle. This is a huge benefit for me as I like to travel with the least amount of bulk as possible.

2. The Sony allows you to load it up with PDF's, TXT files, Microsoft Reader files, and Open eBook files.

The question I am asked every time I am on an airplane, is "how do you like reading on that thing?" Well let me tell you. I LOVE IT. The e-ink technology that it uses for the screen is amazing. It actually looks like you are reading paper rather than a computer screen. I was extremely worried about this as I often find it difficult and straining on the eyes to read long papers on a typical computer screen. I can (and have) read for hours without my eyes becoming strained at all!

I recommend the eBook reader 100%

ÜberTwitter Beta-3 Almost Ready!!!

As you know, I am a huge proponent of ÜberTwitter, which is why I am extremely happy by this news from the folks over at ÜberTwitter.

ÜberTwitter Beta-3 is being readied for release. This release deepens support for Twitter features and takes further advantage of the capablities available in your BlackBerry device.

Just a few of the new features/updates are:

• Cleaned up and modernized the user interface
  
• Greatly reduced battery drain!
  
• Ability to delete one of your tweets
  
• Merge of both @Replies/Mentions as well as Direct Messages into your timeline
  
• Integrated BlackBerry Maps when viewing a Tweet, works just like the myloc.me web site. This will view the location of the tweet if it includes a 'myloc.me' or 'mypic.me' or 'myvid.me' URL, OR will use the location in the profile if it includes a latitude/longitude pair. This includes support for the iphone twitter clients which routinely put the geolocation in the Twitter profile location field!
  
• When viewing a tweet which contains a latitude/longitude pair in the location field we will now provide the 'human readable' address of that location, also works for iPhone geolocations in the Twitter profile location field.
  

To Learn more visit the ÜberTwitter website. www.ubertwiter.com