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GMailWireless.com - Sony PRS-505/LC Blue Digital Book Reader
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List Price: $299.99
Our Price: $269.99
Your Save: $ 30.00 ( 10% )
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Sony
Display Size: 6
EAN: 0027242723658
Feature: Easy to read display - e-paper display with quicker page turns
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Model: PRS-505/LC
Modem Description: None
Native Resolution: 6"
Publisher: Sony
Studio: Sony
System Memory Size: 0
System Memory Type: SDRAM
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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Easy to read display - e-paper display with quicker page turns
Premium design - Simple, yet sophisticated with easier navigation
Compact and lightweight
Integrated eBookstore with 20K titles
Up to 7,500 page turns on full charge
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Caution urged for those with astigmatism or unusual lens Rx
Comment: After doing a tremendous amount of research, I asked for & received one of these readers for my birthday. I had heard nothing but rave reviews about e-ink and e-paper, readability and the low/no eyestrain produced by this great technology. In all fairness, I will say that is seems like a wonderful device and thus far, it operates as advertised.
Unfortunately for me, I had not read my new ebook for more than 15 minutes when I experienced massive eyestrain, a migraine-level headache and nausea so extreme it was almost debilitating. I tried again several days later with the same results. I have an unusual glasses prescription w/an acute astigmatism and even with corrective lenses, apparently this format just doesn't work for everyone. I had not read of this reaction in any other reviews or I would not have risked asking my family to order one before viewing one in person.
Other family members (with better eyes) are able to use it and although they say it isn't as crisp as real print on real paper, they were not affected in such an immediate & negative way.
If anyone intending to use a reader with e-ink and e-paper (of any brand)has vision issues or an unusual prescription, I would strongly advise attempting to find one of these readers for a live demo before purchasing (or at the very least, double-check the return policy).
Because it had been engraved for me, it is not returnable. Expensive lesson learned.
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Summary: Poor Quality and Lousy Customer Service
Comment: Product stopped working after 7 months. Sony store where it was purcahsed refused to take it back and sent me to customer service. Customer service wanted to charge me for a replacement and when I balked they sent me to a customer service manager that negotiated the rate down but still wanted to charge me. In addition -- being forced to send the unit back at my cost.
Given the cost of the unit I would have expected better build quality and better customer service. Will bite the bullet and get it fixed but lack of quality and service will keep me from purchasing a Sony product in the future.
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Summary: Too costly
Comment: I love the idea of this thing. I love the feel of it. And I thought it was going to be so practical, but it turns out it just is not.
I travel a great deal and fill in the time by reading. It's annoying having to pack three or four books just to get through a trip, to know that you're going to have to haul them around--already read--at the other end of your trip. So this was a great thing for me.
But it's expensive. Even the initial cost is a little high, but then to find out that nearly every single title available through the sony ebook website is more expensive than not only it's kindle counterpart, but also its real book counterpart was a huge let down. I cannot justify a digital copy costing more than the same content on real paper. Maybe Sony is has higher book prices in order to compensate for its lower unit cost, but it means that the only things on my ebook are the 100 free classics downloads that came with the purchase. And the classics were not the choicest of classics, either.
As soon as the cost of available titles goes down, this thing will be my favorite accessory.
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Summary: Sony Blue not for Europe
Comment: Sony PRS-505/LC Blue Digital Book Reader
This Reader should not be sold to Europe because you need a Visa card with an American address to order books to read.
The manual and the "interface" are not up to Apple standard. A large manual like a map of USA where you have to jump around from digit 1 to digit 9 to make any sense of the product is not a nice introduction.
If you are not very young you can't read commercial PDFs, the text gets too small and you can't increase it very much.
I use the reader for texts from the Gutenberg site.
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Summary: Great at What it Does
Comment: A few months back I started reading up on electronic ink devices, and since we funnel most of our weekly purchases (groceries, gas, etc.) through a Borders credit card before paying it off each month, I started saving up the reward points to get this device.
Having saved up enough cred, I bought the unit in late May (2 months before writing this review). I've absolutely loved it. I haven't purchased any books through the Sony store, but I have downloaded more than three hundred public domain books through feedbooks, manybooks, munseys, and mobileread. Since any book older than 100 years (in America) or 50 years past the author's death (in England) is free for reproduction, the selection of books on those sites is a liberal arts education ready to be plucked. For someone like me, who likes old books more than new, the greatest thing about this unit is being able to carry around Saint Thomas's entire Summa Theologica, Augustine's City of God, Spenser's Faerie Queene, all of Shakespeare's plays, the histories of Livy, the essays of Montaigne, the Federalist papers, the novels of Mark Twain, and all the dialogues of Plato in a unit that weighs less than one volume of any of those great works.
The display really is like reading from paper, and an automatic viewing history function makes the bookmark feature helpful but not necessary; if I get tired of reading Cicero, I can simply return to the main menu, read some Nietzsche, come back to Cicero, and pick up where I left off. I have not tried Calibre yet, but the Sony e-library program, while inelegant, does fine for organizing the titles into whatever categories suit me. (Right now I've got them sorted by historical and geographic categories--Greeks, Romans, medievals, Renaissance, Enlightenment, etc.)
I've recommended this unit to a number of friends, and I've taken it with me on the road, to doctors' offices, and just about anywhere I go. Great purchase.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Reader Digital Book holds about 160 eBooks or hundreds more with optional removable memory cards. Its portable size makes it the perfect travel companion, allowing you to read a variety of books whenever and wherever you want. With thousands of eBook titles available from the CONNECT eBooks Store, you can choose to download new releases, classics and popular book titles as well as view other document formats such as Adobe PDF10, RTF, TXT, BBeB and Microsoft Word. Its long battery life lasts up to 7,500 continuous page turns, and the amazing paper-like screen technology is easy on the eyes.
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