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It is very usable - buttons, interface, loading of books.However:- most books are not available in electroninc form- the screen is extremely fragile. I owned already two Sony PRS-505 Readers.There is certainly a WOW. factor when you first get it. Being a book, you will carry it around, and surely drop a few times, within a month or two, eventually.- also, I am currently fighting a software glitch that does not let me reset the ebook. Given the apparently long life of the battery, I will need to wait for a month or longer until the battery is depleted and the unit resets.
Product came with no problems. My daughter was very happy with her birthday present.
The only issue I have with it is the ebook library, you can't rename the book files, that's kind of annoying. I just got the PRS-505, deciding to forgo the PRS-700 simply for the fact that I didn't want to pay the extra $100 just for a light and touch screen. And also the placement of the turn page buttons. I love the PRS-505, I haven't had any problems with pdf's at all. I think it reads them just fine. they're kind of awkward but I'm getting used to it. All in all I think its a great device and if your thinking of a sony reader I say go for the PRS-505 and save some money than buying the PRS-700.
Call me vain, but I also like seeing all the books I've read in my bookcase, it feels like an accomplishment. I bought the reader AFTER it's update and I can read pdf files fine. I also decided that it would be more eco-friendly since I wouldn't be using as much paper - I really had to convince myself to spend 300.00 on a reader if you can't tell. When you "scroll" the page it flips it as if it were flipping the page of a book. I also decided that the cost of buying a used book online, with shipping, would equal about what I would spend on an ebook. Just like buying online the olderbooks are going to be cheaper and the newer ones more expensive, the only difference is that if you want to buy a new hardback it will cost upwards to 20-30 dollars while you can get one for 12-15 dollars at sony's store. I was concerned that I wouldn't like the reader because I love the feel of a book in my hands. You can't read one page at a time, rather, when you hit the button after reading the 1st half it sends you to where you left off and then hit it again and it takes you to the bottom.
As a result sometimes you get the title and author backwards. All I do is zoom in once and hit the next page button. For me this is not so huge of a problem because it doesn't affect the reader's ability to do what it was meant to do. I also have to do tons of research for papers which require I read pdfs as well. As far as books go I decided to buy this product because I love classic and you can get those, mostly, for free from various website - plus sony is offering 100 free classics with registration right now. The majority of my reading is pdf file and my only complaint is that the program you use to put the files on there won't let you put in the title and author.
Secondly, I'm also college student whose professors post journal articles (in pdf format) to read for classes. Needless to say my laptop was getting heavy and I felt guilty for printing off 25-50 pages a journal article, I thought it was wasteful. I've tried renaming the actual file and it still doesn't work - most of my files won't let me change the information in the 'prefrences' either. Overall I love it.
Good product, very slim and portable. I like the fact that you can upload PDF documents, musics,and pbotos (although only in B& W).Some limitations, on works on Windows base systems and only takes Sonny music format.However, as a student it's awesome for taking your notes or lectures with you in PDF format.Sonny should broaden their horizon and open the sourcing to Mac and mutilple mp3 formats. The kindle gives this a run for the money with the ability to get newspapers and magazines.Otherwise great size. Great price and pretty handy device.
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