Ultimately, the Sony Reader marks a nice progression for Sony in the e-book reader department. But discussions of what is the ultimate e-book reader of the moment aside, the Reader is as close to a breakthrough product as the category has seen to date. Sony needs to make a second-generation device...
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Bluejack
E-Ink is great for reading, and this feels much nicer in the hand than any kindle. The buttons are a little weird, but not as weird as Kindle's. (Is there some reason ebook designers feel the need to completely reinvent industrial design?) There are some major drawbacks: 1) Sony store,...
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funkwaffle
The slow refresh rate on the e-ink display makes the PRS-500 frustrating to use at best. Even navigating the menu is disappointingly and maddeningly slow. While it does handle PDFs the processing time on top of the refresh rate results in a painful wait between pages. Should you accidentally...
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Ultim8Fury
Since I bought it 3 years ago I've rarely left the house without it. I've read thousands of books on it and my only gripe is the poor quality software supplied by Sony. There is however an excellent alternative supplied by the mobileread.com community in the form of Calibre. If you want...
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skipjack
I have enjoyed my E-Reader, the fact it's not locked into Sony's book store it great. Since I use Vista 64 I can't use their store anyhow. I did have to use a friends computer to activate it, after that I just put books from Baen's site on an SD card. With a 4G card I have...
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