Reading Experience (on different devices)

Now I have almost all the goodies: laptops(both mac and windows), Kindle DX, and an android phone, I start to compare the reading experience on them. The answer, is full of surprises.

First, to my surprise, my least-like reading device is my mac laptop. For some reason, even with the high resolution screen, the display of my mac laptop doesn't look as good as my 3 years old DELL. My eyes get tired much more easily and there is no way to adjust both brightness and contrast (only brightness could be adjusted from the system preferences). I basically avoid using it if I can (I have to use it for work).

Second, I found my android phone works really well for reading (and many other things). Yes, the screen is small, but the display quality of this tiny phone is superior to my laptop. Also, the Kindle for android reader has better navigation than the Kindle for PC. The same ebook even looks better on it. (I tried a few other eReaders, they are fancy but the reading experience was actually not as good as the plain kindle reader.) After trying it a few times, I start to use my android phone to read more and more*.

Now comes the final surprise. I found I liked my Kindle even more. Yes, the navigation sucks, yes, it's too primitive, but when I found I couldn't read from my android phone under the sun, I learned to respect my Kindle. I am also more focused on the reading itself. In fact, now I am thinking of getting a Kindle 3G since my Kindle DX is really showing its age (when doing side-to-side comparison with Chinchih's Kindle 3G). Will that decision get changed if I buy an android tablet? No, not until I can read it under the sun.

*It also allows me to read while waiting in line for coffee, what a time saver!