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A family of readers
Hello,
I am 40 and my wife bought me a Sony 500 for my birthday about 6 months ago. She did not think it was that practical but it was a gift for me no her. After she actually held one in her hand and used it she was instantly converted.
We home school our two boys and use in part a curriculum named, "The Robinson Curriculum" that is very heavy on math, reading, and writing. The curriculum is sold on about 16 CDs that contain TIF images of all the required reading. About 98% of the required reading is available already from Project Gutenberg but they have collected original scans of all the books and also gotten author/publisher permission for several works which are not yet in the public domain such as the 1915 Encyclopedia Britanica.
When the Sony 505 came out I bought that, used the special offer to get another 500 for $50 and gave the two 500's to my sons (ages 13 and 14). We loaded theirs with all the required reading by downloading all the books from ManyBooks or P.G. The books that we cannot find I create using a small program I wrote to create an HTML book from the TIF images provided in the Robinson Curriculum and then converting to LRF with the excellent LibPRS500 and HTML2LRF.
My father in-law saw the readers and immediately fell in love. For his 71st birthday this December we got him a 500 and I bought my wife a 505 for Christmas.
That makes 2 505's and 3 500's in our immediate family circle with readers in the age range 13 to 71.
-Jon
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