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Originally Posted by HarryT
Heavens no - the PRS-600 is much, much faster than the PRS-300; it's one of the fastest readers around. The 600 will turn pages at about double the rate of the 300.
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You are correct - I caved and bought a PRS-600 off eBay (darn those iPad owners putting their old eBook devices for such low prices that I can't resist!). The 600 refreshes pages
much faster, even in large PDFs. And I adore the 600's light cover. But the screen glare/contrast make it useless in daytime. I can't even read it in my work office -- all I can see are the vertical blinds behind me (closed!) or the flourescent lights above me. Maybe I'll hide under my desk
As far as having two readers, I have my iPhone 3G, so I can still use that as my pocket/travel reader. Although I have to say I'm less enthused with it since I upgraded to iOS 4 - certain tasks are much slower than they were, and iBooks is noticeably slow to load and turn pages on my 3G. And I don't have wallpaper, multitasking or battery usage turned on.
The Cybook Opus is on its way as a possible compromise between the nook & 300 (expandable memory and folder capabilities, but no wireless). I've been researching a few of the WiFi devices:
PocketBook 302 - screen glare looks worse than Sony 600/700
Cybook Orizon/Bebook Neo/Onyx Boox - don't want to go back to a stylus
PRS-900 - supposedly has less glare than the PRS-600
But any of them would definitely
have to qualify as my only device, as they are much pricier.