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Originally Posted by UbiquitousPhoton
2. The amazon store ... which is unfortunately the only sensible way to buy e-books in this country, its the cheapest, and has the best range. It would obviously be a complete faff to get books from the amazon store onto the sony reader, but not impossible... but then I also do like the greater flexibility of the Sony when it comes to formats, so no real winner there. Other than the PDFs I am mostly only bothered about the best reading experience for bog standard books, no manga or the suchlike.
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As European publishers go for epub format and not Amazon, I'd say get an epub reader. But, as you're English, and Amazon is in the English language mainly as well, you should have enough choice from Amazon. But you'll have to format-shift everything you buy from other stores.
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Originally Posted by UbiquitousPhoton
3. Battery life - can those lucky people who already got a 650 confirm that the battery life is comparable to the Kindle? The Sony appears to only quote a standby figure of 5 days, which seems somewhat ... short, specially for a device with no wifi / 3g capabilities. I presume this is something to do with the touch screen?
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Only 5 days? I can say from experience that that is completely made up. I can't compare it to the Kindle 3 yet, as that one has been available for a longer time (and the Sony only for a week
). I have not turned the Sony off, it's been without recharging since Sunday (when I last put books on it), and it's still showing a full bar.