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i think the sony touch has a great chance in the ereader marketplace. there’s a great article on various devices and their names over here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/personaltech/03sony.html?_r=1
The difference is simple.
After you read a good book you put your book on a shelf,and every time you past in front of it a part of you is there. And sometime some books you can feel it, these books got a soul.
Pretty hard to put that in a electronic device maybe one day.
But I found that a nice device.
Arthur Chiasson
I have owned a Sony Reader ever since they came out in Canada. I love books. I read all the time. When I was young and in school I sometimes read a book a day. The soul of a book isn’t in the paper or the binding, but in the story it tells.
I now have hundreds of stories stored electronically and am working to replace any of the paper books I have with electronic copies. I would recommend the Reader (although I don’t have the touch version) highly and would feel devastated if I didn’t have it any longer.
The Reader is not equivalent to an MP3 player or a computer for reading books, it is vastly superior. It is a different technology, has a ‘paper’ look to the screen and isn’t backlit. Go buy one and read with it.
I’m an IT professional and i understand technology very well. In my professional opinion these devices are a waste of money.
I could give you several alternatives ranging from your cell phone to your mp3 player.
Don’t waste your money on this device.
Sorry, but your ‘several alternatives’ are not very likely.
1) Unless you buy a cell phone or mp3 player with a 6 inch screen (good luck), you will never have the screen space that this unit provides. There is no comparison (I have an iPhone with one of the biggest screens on the market, and I tell you reading .pdf files on it is a pain in the azz). You *could* buy a netbook, but you won’t have the comfort of the screen to read from (next point).
2) The screen backing is *not* your typical backlit lcd…it has a proprietary screen that looks (and reads) more like a paperback than anything else. To anyone with ‘older’ eyes this is a VAST difference (literally night and day) when compared to reading something on your typical lcd monitor.
3) This is a specific product, with a specific purpose. It is for reading exclusively, not reading while chatting or texting or twitting or facebooking. It isn’t for everybody, but then again neither is reading. Also, because it is still a relatively emerging technology, it is expensive. When these units drop down to about a hundred bucks, you’re going to see a swift change in how big-box book stores are forced to operate. The MP3 feature in this unit is just a nice little bonus.
4) To any book worm with a closet or shelves filled with post-read books (you know, the ones you don’t want to depart with?), I imagine the practicality of this device will quickly become apparent. Now you can carry that bookshelf around with you.
5) I agree with the poster that books do indeed have a soul. But I think once people can get over their technophobia, this unit will be also prove to have a soul of its own…only with multiple personalities. :)
I would tend to disagree with you. I am visually impaired and require large print to view books. Back in the past, I hated reading because of the print being so fine and could not read properly, and a visual tech was just too cumbersome. Now with the eBook reader such as this one, I can now take the print seom small to XXL (I own this reader by the way) and now I am back to reading Shakesperre and all of the classics that I wanted to read but could not find large enough print. Also the screen being the new technology of simulating paper does not harm my eye as much as a normal LCD can and the backlight is extremely excelent to light up all of the page while reading at night or in the dark (pardon the pun :)).
So consider this when choosing this one – the older one will only go up to large and it’s 50 bucks cheaper, but I would recommend this one the most.
Have a good one everyone!
I had heard about these devices and since I am an insatiable reader I thought it would be handy. Just from this small synopsis of video, i’m shocked at the price that this is going to enter the market at. Plus are you kidding me the same price for an e-book as a hardcover. Good thing my library card is still free!
Good thing Library card is free indeed, and you can use the device to borrow books from your local libraries, granted, you do not have alot of choice right now, only about 500 books in EPub format in Calgary Library, but more you use it more libraries see it being used – more books they get. I have older model 505 and i love it, cannot really use it much lately because my wife is reading more now :); also, Google has a collection of about a million books for free. There are alot of options for cheaper or even “free” books.
This thing looks great, but having to pay $30 for a digital book doesn’t make sense when you can buy the actual book cheaper than that online from Chapters. The Kindle from Amazon (which I know isn’t available in Canada yet, but will be at some point I would imagine), the books, even new releases only cost $10, don’t they?
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