Sony PRS-505/LC Blue Digital Book Reader
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.
Sony PRS-505/LC Blue Digital Book Reader Accessories
 Sony Electronic Book Leather Cover (Black)
Sony Electronic Book AC Charger - ACS5220E
Mighty Bright XtraFlex2 Light - Black
Sony PRS-505 Portable Digital e-Reader System (Silver)
Sony Optional Charging/Synching Cradle
Rapid Wall / AC Charger for the Sony Reader PRS-505 - Gomadic Brand w/ TipExchange Technology
Sony Optional Book Covers / Brown
Essential Kit for the Sony Reader PRS-505 - includes Car and Wall Charger with Rapid Charge Technology - Gomadic Brand w/ TipExchange Technology
eCaddy Hardshell Case for Sony eReader PRS-505 500
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Sony PRS-505/LC Blue Digital Book Reader Reviews
And the PDF is almost useless, at least for me, the fonts remains way too small, but you can copy the whole book, paste it in "word", and select the ideal font and size for you. Very light, nice screen (could be a little bit larger). Takes you 5 minutes or less, and it's a pleasure to read. PD: Can anyone help me with the "grey scale" thing. The word files are easily transferred and automaticaly formatted to RTF. Overall.
fantastic product. Love the reader. Sony advertises it has 6 levels of grey, but I can't found nor figure out how to adjust it. One of the things I disliked is the + button (font size) in the left, the tiny button is OK, but misplaced, touch it accidentally twice in the first 10 pages.
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. 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.
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 have an unusual glasses prescription w/an acute astigmatism and even with corrective lenses, apparently this format just doesn't work for everyone.
In all fairness, I will say that is seems like a wonderful device and thus far, it operates as advertised.
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.
I tried again several days later with the same results.
I had heard nothing but rave reviews about e-ink and e-paper, readability and the low/no eyestrain produced by this great technology.
After doing a tremendous amount of research, I asked for & received one of these readers for my birthday.
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. 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. Sony store where it was purcahsed refused to take it back and sent me to customer service. Product stopped working after 7 months. In addition being forced to send the unit back at my cost.
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. 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 aroundalready readat the other end of your trip. 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. But it's expensive.
I love the feel of it. I cannot justify a digital copy costing more than the same content on real paper. I love the idea of this thing. And I thought it was going to be so practical, but it turns out it just is not.
As soon as the cost of available titles goes down, this thing will be my favorite accessory. And the classics were not the choicest of classics, either. So this was a great thing for me. I travel a great deal and fill in the time by reading.
I use the reader for texts from the Gutenberg site. This Reader should not be sold to Europe because you need a Visa card with an American address to order books to read. 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. The manual and the "interface" are not up to Apple standard. 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. Sony PRS-505/LC Blue Digital Book Reader.
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