Binding: Electronics
Brand: Sony
Display Size: 6 inches
EAN: 0027242723658
Height: 690 hundredths-inches
Length: 30 hundredths-inches
Weight: 56 hundredths-pounds
Width: 480 hundredths-inches
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Model: PRS-505/LC
Modem Description: None
Native Resolution: 6"
Publisher: Sony
Studio: Sony
System Memory Size: 0 MB
System Memory Type: SDRAM
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Feature:
- 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
Product Description:
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.
Customer Reviews:
 Great at What it Does, 2008-07-22
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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