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CJBarrow · 01-14-2008, 04:24 AM

I have finally made my decision on which e book reader to keep, this is the bookeen Gen3. My Sony PRS-505 was sold on Ebay on Friday.

What decided me was speed, flexibility and the range of easily available e books for the Gen3.

I will update the first post with my findings, unfortunately I can not give an update on the leather cover as I am still waiting (3 weeks) for it to be delivered.

Key differentiators that made my decision for me:

Availability of e books, both copy protected (DRM) and unprotected with easy conversion to Mobipocket for some file formats.
Speed - The Gen 3 is a lot faster in everything that it does
Flexibility - Better formatting options, ability to sort books out in folders on both memory card and internal memory. Plus a number of other options that are just not available on the Sony PRS-505.

Chris.

01-14-2008, 04:24 AM	#21
CJBarrow Book worm Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: Sony Reader/Cybook Gen3/Hanlin V5	I have finally made my decision on which e book reader to keep, this is the bookeen Gen3. My Sony PRS-505 was sold on Ebay on Friday. What decided me was speed, flexibility and the range of easily available e books for the Gen3. I will update the first post with my findings, unfortunately I can not give an update on the leather cover as I am still waiting (3 weeks) for it to be delivered. Key differentiators that made my decision for me: Availability of e books, both copy protected (DRM) and unprotected with easy conversion to Mobipocket for some file formats. Speed - The Gen 3 is a lot faster in everything that it does Flexibility - Better formatting options, ability to sort books out in folders on both memory card and internal memory. Plus a number of other options that are just not available on the Sony PRS-505. Chris.