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Old 12-20-2010, 05:14 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Todayswheather View Post
I also am a little drawn to the option to check out books from the library.. but am I sacrificing a lot? Is the Sony 350 far inferior to the Kindle?? Also, I'm hearing a lot of mixed things about the kindle's ability to use non-amazon products and am getting rather confused... Also, what about buying textbooks--seems like the sony store wouldn't have this? Could I buy from amazon and use it on a sony?
Both are great devices, I wouldn't say that one is better than the other, it just depends on your needs and preferences. The Kindle has wi-fi access, the Sony doesn't. The 350 has a 5 inch screen, which is great for gents who want to carry their reader in their shirt pocket. The Sony products have better PDF viewing capabilities than the Kindle products, but again, with the 5 inch screen you'd be getting a smaller screen. (With the Sony products you can use dictionaries with PDFs, which I don't think you can with Kindle products; you can mark up your PDFs, which, again, I don't think you can do with the Kindle, also the zoom feature seems to work a lot better on the Sony products, from what I've seen on youtube reviews.) With the Sony products you can also use them to read library books for free, which is a great advantage in my opinion, and the Sony products come pre-loaded with 12 dictionaries, which for me make them worth the price for that feature alone... but then again, I read a lot in foreign languages, so YMMV.

The Sony 650 has a 6 inch screen and the 950 has a 7 inch screen. (I'm looking to get myself the 950. It's on sale now for $250, I believe). I'm not sure how good the Amazon store is for textbooks, to be honest... try looking up some textbooks that you'd need /want and see if they carry them. Any textbooks that I have are in PDF format. To be honest, the products that would probably fit your needs best are the Kindle DX, the Sony PRS-950 and the Pocketbook 902 or 903, which are all above your price range.

Here are some videos that show the PRS-350 handling PDfs, as well as the Kindle, so that you can get an idea of how they work:

PRS-650

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE6Ivnk817E

Sony 650 vs. Kindle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtrKo5UWpco&feature=fvw

Kindle PDFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlZ9cqjzOik

Hope that helps a bit.
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