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PRS+ will give you full folder support on the 350, I have it installed on mine and works wonderfully.
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Yay! Definitely a strong mark in its favor. (How does it get installed? The instructions I had for PRS+ involve a memory card.)
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But really, is there any reason you need to carry around more than 1000 ebooks with you at any time? Since you also have them backed up on your computer for safekeeping, it's simple enough to periodically swap which 1000 books you have on the reader at any time.
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2gb internal should be fine; I'm just twitchy about it. I have several large PDFs in my collection--RPG books I keep in the reader for easy reference--and I don't want to run out of space for those. (My "gaming" folder currently has 18 files totaling 91mb. And some of those are the condensed versions where I've downsampled the images. I'd have more, but the 505 isn't really happy with large PDFs; it slows down when reading them.)
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Not sure how you think the touch screen works and why you think you need to click and swipe, but you don't. It's not really a touch screen like you're used to on cell phones for instance;
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Because the ones on cellphones are the only touch screens I've dealt with. And I don't like the cellphone ones. Husband has an iPhone. It drives me buggy when I try to use it.
What I most care about is that I can switch pages without having to lift my hand away from the device, because I'll be reading on crowded trains with shifting passengers. A few people have said this is not a problem.
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Which filetype are you interested in reading that the Sony won't handle?
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HTML and potentially DOC. I'm tired of having to convert files to RTF, which has annoying much larger filesize. And the Sonys don't support pictures in RTF files; for those, I have to get out the actual conversion software and make an epub. (Calibre's settings give me fits; I've never gotten comfortable with it. I want a conversion program that isn't attached to a library program.)
It's a minor nuisance; I'd just like my next purchase to be something better, in as many ways as I can arrange.
I'm not comparing potential new devices to my current device; I'm comparing them to the Astak Pocket Pro or Bebook Mini.
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It's one of the better reader for various filetypes, also handles library books which are epub.
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Irrelevant to me; I don't touch DRM. (In the case of library books, not because of any anti-DRM philosophy, but because of the nuisance factor of setting up the software on multiple computers used by multiple people. Not worth the hassle; I expect there's nothing the library's going to carry that's worth the effort, especially not when I factor in waiting times.)
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But I really don't think the Sony software reorganizes the reader every connection to the computer, I never noticed it doing that before I discovered Calibre.
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After every disconnect, it has to inventory its internal library. The 505 takes a long time once there's more than about 300 books, and having more than 700 can have a 15-minute wait before the reader is usable.
I keep my reader at 300-400 books, but that's because I get too frustrated at the wait when I get more than 400 loaded on it. With better organization & folder support, I'd probably run near a thousand, because AO3 allows its fanfic to be downloaded as ebooks. (Hm. Need to find out if the ones with pictures work on the 350. The don't work on the 505; the images cause the program to hang.)
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It's the newest e-ink screen, so it is better than the Nook (still using first gen e-ink screen), and is the same screen as the Kindle uses. The text looks a bit sharper than on the 650 because of packing the same number of pixels into a smaller size screen.
You should try to find the ones you're interested in at a local store and try them out, but I really don't think you'd be disappointed with the 350 at all. I love mine and take it everywhere with me.
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I'll see if I can get down to Fry's and try one out. I'm not sure there's a store in San Francisco that has display models.
You make a strong case; I'm seriously considering it, and I'd been dismissing the Sonys entirely because I didn't want something with all the flaws of my current reader just to get a sharper screen.