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Originally Posted by ficbot
I have owned a Sony, a Libre and a Kindle and of the three, I prefer the Kindle because it has two features I use that other readers do not have (multilanguage dictionary support and text to speech). If it were not for those two features which made me upgrade, I probably would have been happy to keep my Sony. The Libre, I found its formatting not as nice (line spacing was not always maintained). And I have also tried a Kobo and while both of my parents have them and are happy, I did not like it and would not recommend it. It feels very slow and pokey to me compared to my Kindle.
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The new Sony models (PRS-350, PRS-650 and the upcoming PRS-950) have 12 pre-installed dictionaries (two monolingual eng. dictionaries, as well as French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch translation dictionaries). It doesn't have TTS, however. The upcoming dictionaries from Pocketbook have TTS and touchscreens as well.
Every e-book reader on the market is somebody's perfect e-reader, it all depends on his or her specific wants and needs. Do you have any features that you would like to see in an item? Any file formats that you think you would like your e-book reader to support, any screen size that you have in mind? What kind of books do you plan to read on it? Classics, bestsellers, journal articles, newspapers...? If you tell us a bit about your needs, we can help you narrow down your choices.
That said, I have been more than happy with my Sony PRS-505, and I hope to upgrade to a Sony 650 or 950. I'm also looking into the Pocketbook pro 903, for reading scanned PDFs and the like.