I've already posted a similar post in another thread, but thought this might be better as a thread in it's own right. So tell us about the reader you bought, why and what you like or don't like about it?
I bought the Sony Reader PRS-600 this Christmas. I got it for €200 which I think is reasonable. Not cheap, just barely price worthy. This one has a touch screen and allows me to make notes (with a pen) and stuff. Perfect for proofreading my own stuff. Will save a lot of printing. It's excellent to read from. I can change the fonts. I'm a parallel reader and I can read several books at once, with only one physical book.
An annoyance is that the software that came with the Sony reader, (The Sony Library) with which one is to buy books is buggy and incomprehensible. It's also supposed to be used to organise the books, but I could never figure it out. I've seen other people have similar problems to me, so I just uninstalled it. It isn't necessary to have so there's really no point.
One of the salesman's shticks was that I could expand the memory. It comes with 250 mb of internal memory, already... it's a reader!... of text! Why would I possibly want to expand that memory? It's crap for looking at pictures with anyway, and I fail to see why anybody would use it to listen to music. I won't.
I like that the Sony reader is a very open reader and gives the power to the user, which I like. It's really easy converting between formats. And reading PDF's is just fine. I'd been told it would be a hassle, but that was all lies.
Best buy in a long time. And it's perfect to read from. I prefer this to a real book. One feature that I love, which is utterly useless, is the fact that I can put a finger on a page and drag it to the left and it changes the page, just as if it had been changing pages on a real book. Utterly reduntant feature, but I still love it.
I was close to buying the PRS-505 but I thought it was too expensive then, and I'm happy I waited a year. The PRS-600 is both cheaper, better and has a slightly bigger screen.
I bought the Sony Reader PRS-600 this Christmas. I got it for €200 which I think is reasonable. Not cheap, just barely price worthy. This one has a touch screen and allows me to make notes (with a pen) and stuff. Perfect for proofreading my own stuff. Will save a lot of printing. It's excellent to read from. I can change the fonts. I'm a parallel reader and I can read several books at once, with only one physical book.
An annoyance is that the software that came with the Sony reader, (The Sony Library) with which one is to buy books is buggy and incomprehensible. It's also supposed to be used to organise the books, but I could never figure it out. I've seen other people have similar problems to me, so I just uninstalled it. It isn't necessary to have so there's really no point.
One of the salesman's shticks was that I could expand the memory. It comes with 250 mb of internal memory, already... it's a reader!... of text! Why would I possibly want to expand that memory? It's crap for looking at pictures with anyway, and I fail to see why anybody would use it to listen to music. I won't.
I like that the Sony reader is a very open reader and gives the power to the user, which I like. It's really easy converting between formats. And reading PDF's is just fine. I'd been told it would be a hassle, but that was all lies.
Best buy in a long time. And it's perfect to read from. I prefer this to a real book. One feature that I love, which is utterly useless, is the fact that I can put a finger on a page and drag it to the left and it changes the page, just as if it had been changing pages on a real book. Utterly reduntant feature, but I still love it.
I was close to buying the PRS-505 but I thought it was too expensive then, and I'm happy I waited a year. The PRS-600 is both cheaper, better and has a slightly bigger screen.