Thread: a few questions from a PRS-300 noob
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Old 11-02-2010, 11:49 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by soondai View Post
Hi.
I snagged a PRS-300 on clearance at Target yesterday for 75 bucks. Very happy with the purchase since I almost bought one at Best Buy for 120 a month or so ago.

From reading the boards I think I have a good idea of its abilities and limitations. I know not to load it too full of books or it will take forever to turn on. And to use Calibre instead of their library. But I have a few questions.

1) Have any 300 owners had the battery completely die on them yet? How long did it take to happen and is there any possibility of replacing the battery yourself? google yields nothing promising here.

2) I've seen that PSP chargers work. I want to make sure: my cell phone charger w/ mini USB will not work?

3) How is the official Sony case with light? They're available for 17 bucks on Amazon, but some reviews indicate it does not offer much protection. Any recommendations here? Improvising w cases for other things? I'd love to find just a cheap case for travel storage and fending off toddler foraging.

4) Roughly how many books can it hold before the initial scanning slowdown becomes a pain? I've got about 10 loaded up and it seems fine. I can't imagine I'd ever want more than 20 on there at a time.

Thanks in advance for your help.

I'd finally decided to get a Kindle a day or two back when I saw this deal and I have no regrets going this way. I just want to read. I really like the machine so far. It's even handled PDFs much better than I would have guessed. And I really love the look and feel of the Sonys, but the new line was out of my price range. Happy to be cutting my teeth with this.

1. I've Had mine since Sept. of last year and it's still going strong. I read a lot so I'd say it has a really good battery.

As far as changing the battery I just planned on opening it up once it died to see if I could change.

2. I charge mine with the psp charger

3. I love the case itself but don't use the light on it. It shines on it so that you have to play with it to get it right to see the screen properly and isn't the brightest either. I do like how it feels in my hands when reading. I'm planning on getting the case witout the light for my new one.

4. roghly 300 like someone else said.

The sony libray isn't bad and use it for buying books on sony.

It's a great reader and I will be gifting mine to my sister since I upgraded to the newer version.

congrats on the new reader you will enjoy it!
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