|
well I'll answer the portions that I can for now. I owned a PRS-600 for about a week, the returned it because of the screen. I've owned a PRS-300 before that which I still own and love for what it is.
The new kindle screen rocks sony's socks off. The white is not "whiter", anyone who says otherwise is embellishing things, IMHO...but the ink is much blacker. This makes a huge difference in readability. second is the multiple font sizes and justification of text. this also helps readability.
You can undrm any of your sony books and convert them to .mobi in calibre, and then sideload them right onto your kindle via uSB cable. I don't know about dropbox, but you can email documents right to your kindle, where they are converted and downloaded automatically via whispernet. I think it's like 15 cents per MB though, but the fee is nominal for the convenience, if you ask me. I don't *think* the browser allows downloading documents from any sources, but someone will surely correct me if I'm wrong. But the @kindle.com email address is so dang handy, I don't mind paying the fee. If you want a document converted and don't want to pay the fee, you can send it to your address @free.kindle.com and it will convert and send it to your email address, where you can then load it via USB.
I was thinking I'd miss the epub support at first, but calibre does a pretty good job on converting things to mobi format, and I really don't miss it at all.
I hope this helps touch on some of your points anyway, I really don't think you'll be sorry, especially if you only want the wifi version, $140 isn't much to drop on a reader of this quality, it really stands head and shoulders above the crowd. It's not perfect (see my posts about my two crashes I've had today) but I think as the software develops (and unlike sony, kindle actually updates their software frequently) those bugs will be worked out.
|