So I have one of the Sony e-book readers, and despite it’s various limitations, I like it. It was a first model, but it let me ditch every public domain book from my collection, and let me carry a small device instead of several boxes when I moved.
Sony’s second version of the reader, the PRS-505, has some cool things that my old model doesn’t. It’s siginifigantly snappier (I played with one at the Sony Store the other day), and it also reflows PDF files. So even though it’s a notebook sized PDF, the Sony will render it readable on it’s much smaller screen. As opposed to the older model, which just shows you shrunken version of a notebook sized page that’s unreadable. It also supports DRM laden PDF, and though I would never buy a DRM’d pdf, I would be able to check out from the library online. This would be kinda cool.
Sony, out of apparent respect for the people who jumped in to be the early adopters on the first model, is now offering to cut the price for the new one by a third if you trade in your old PRS-500. Granted, I’m happy with my reader, and I’m more likely to spend the money on a second-hand iPhone (not for phone service, but as my portable uber-device), but I still wanna give props. Sony, it’s not often, but you’ve done something cool. I salute you.
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