5款时髦的电子书阅读器

One of this year's hot holiday gift items is the ebook--those portable digital devises used to read magazines and books.
今年过节不收礼，收礼只收电子书。 让我们来看看当前最时尚的五款电子书各有什么特色。

Not all ebooks are created equal, different format for different books. Each of the ebooks uses different format and some of them use a format that are exclusive to that reader. And if you buy a digital song or digital book or digital movie, you want it to work on any devise, so that's something to think about when you buy a ebook.

首先要指出的是，各种电子书阅读器都是不尽相同的，最主要的不同点是它们各自支持不同的文件格式，有些格式是这种阅读器独有的，所以大家在购买的时候要特别注意。

1. Barnes and Noble Nook

It holds open format books. It's e-pub books. It does have wireless download. And it has something that I'd like to call 'sharing feature'. So I can lend you a book for fourteen days that will show up on your Nook and then come off your Nook, come back to my Nook in fourteen days.

第一种电子书阅读器Nook是由美国最大的实体书商Barnes & Noble出品的，它的最大优点就是支持所有标准电子书格式的文件。可以无线下载。还有你可以把自己的电子书通过Nook借给朋友，但是你不用担心像纸质书一样到时候收不回来，Nook有一个很贴心的设计，借出去的书14天之后会自动返回到你的机器上。另外通过Nook购买到的电子书，你也可以放到其它阅读器上看。所以应该说Nook是非常包容的一款机器。

2. Amazon Kindle 2

It has a longer battery life. It also holds 1,500 books and this is the Kindle that set the standard for ebooks. This is the one we all know in love. But Kindle has DRM(Digital Rights Management) on their books. so when you buy a Kindle, you can only read your books on your Kindle.

第二款是亚马逊公司出品的第二代电子书阅读器Kindle 2，它的最大特点是图书资源丰富，一共包含了1500本图书。但是要注意的是，受到数字权限管理技术（DRM）的限制，Kindle 2上下载的图书只能在Kindle 2上阅读，而不能像Nook一样在其它阅读器上阅读。

3. Amazon Kindle DX

It's made for the college students. It holds more books, 3,500 book. It also has PDF readers, so you can read your files and your documents. And its bigger screen is nice for textbooks.

第三款也是亚马逊公司出品的Kindle DX，这款机器是特意为大学生设计的，屏幕要比Kindle 2大出3英寸，同时容纳更多的图书。但是DRM同样也适用于这台机器。

4. Sony Pocket Reader Edition/Sony Reader Touch

Sony Pocket Reader Edition doesn't have touch screen, but Sony Reader Touch does. Sony Pocket Reader Edition is relatively cheap, so if you want to try out the digital readers, it's a good choice. The Sony readers can access Google books and also your local library's books. So you can check out books for free for 21 days, if your library's participating. The downside is you can't take notes on it and you have to put the pages a lot because of its small screen display.

索尼公司的两款电子书阅读器Pocket版和Touch版，Pocket版的特点就是小巧可爱，方便携带，价格也相对便宜，如果你是首次购买此类产品的买家，那么你可以考虑这款。但是因为它的屏幕较小，所以经常翻页也会给用户带来一些不便。另一款Touch版是有触摸屏的。