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cynicalicious · 10-02-2007, 01:27 AM

Oof. I've been caught in the middle of gizmo transitions before, but never this badly. Not 12 hours ago, I finally ordered a PRS-500 from Tiger, because I'm leaving for a 5-week trip to Japan in a week. (And their policy with the PRS-500 is exchanges only, so I'm stuck with it.)

Ah well. The 500 will hopefully do what I want it to do, and without any of the problems of New Product Version 1.0 Break-in. I used to ride on the Bleeding Edge, and it's called that for a reason. Now I usually wait until rev.B comes out.

I was agonizing over the decision all weekend, and I suspected that something like this would probably happen, but I don't want to travel to the other side of the world with a big pile of books weighing me down, and I didn't want to wait too long to order, or else I wouldn't have time to set the thing up for my flight early next week. 17 hours of travel time demands reading. Lots and lots of reading. I suspect that I'll be hitting up project Gutenberg later this week... or just plowing through the Sony credit for books that are already available via project Gutenberg, but are pre-chewed for the PRS-500.

I did manage to get a ton of useful information from this forum about making the PRS-500 do my bidding. My first project is probably going to be installing Japanese font support on it, to handle e-book versions of a few of my Japanese language books.

I gotta say that the new 505 does look spiffy. Maybe when I get back from Japan, I can eBay the 500 and pick one up.

10-02-2007, 01:27 AM	#2
cynicalicious Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Sony PRS-500	Oof. I've been caught in the middle of gizmo transitions before, but never this badly. Not 12 hours ago, I finally ordered a PRS-500 from Tiger, because I'm leaving for a 5-week trip to Japan in a week. (And their policy with the PRS-500 is exchanges only, so I'm stuck with it.) Ah well. The 500 will hopefully do what I want it to do, and without any of the problems of New Product Version 1.0 Break-in. I used to ride on the Bleeding Edge, and it's called that for a reason. Now I usually wait until rev.B comes out. I was agonizing over the decision all weekend, and I suspected that something like this would probably happen, but I don't want to travel to the other side of the world with a big pile of books weighing me down, and I didn't want to wait too long to order, or else I wouldn't have time to set the thing up for my flight early next week. 17 hours of travel time demands reading. Lots and lots of reading. I suspect that I'll be hitting up project Gutenberg later this week... or just plowing through the Sony credit for books that are already available via project Gutenberg, but are pre-chewed for the PRS-500. I did manage to get a ton of useful information from this forum about making the PRS-500 do my bidding. My first project is probably going to be installing Japanese font support on it, to handle e-book versions of a few of my Japanese language books. I gotta say that the new 505 does look spiffy. Maybe when I get back from Japan, I can eBay the 500 and pick one up.