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Originally Posted by Clamb
Mgmueller, you`ve said before that prefers Sony PRS 950 over Sony PRS 650. Would you tell me what are the pros and cons of each one? I don`t know anything about ebooks and I need one now. I agree with you that the best ones are the big names like Sony, so I`ll probably buy one of these. Is there such a great difference between 6 and 7 inches? And the thing you said about zoom, are sony`s readers difficult to zoom? Are they good for PDF and DOC formats?
What about the wi-fi, is it true that it only works in the US?
Thanks a lot. Clamb
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I've got the older models, Sony 600 and 900. Not the new ones (Sony 650 and 950). I've read, the new ones have a way better zoom.
The old ones did have a zoom only for a single page. If you wanted to crop margins for example, you had to do it again and again for every single page. Not anymore with the new ones.
The Sony readers are okay for PDFs, but not benchmark. iRex for example does a better job. Many users favor iPad as well.
Re. Sony 650 vs. Sony 950 (respectively in my case Sony 600 vs. Sony 900): For me, it never was about the additional 1". I just prefer the form factor of Sony 900. That's one of the reasons, why I prefer Samsung Galaxy Tab over iPad as well. To me, the 16:9 ratio (or something like that) is more natural for reading than 4:3 (or something like that).
The smaller the reader, the easier to hold in one hand. I want to relax while reading, not lift a bulky and/or heavy reader with both hands.
And the additional screen estate of Sony 900 (respectively Sony 950) allows for some nice gimmicks: On the home page, there are additional thumbnails, for example for the last book read.
But that's all just personal taste, there's no technological difference.