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Originally Posted by CedroRosso
Oh don't misunderstand me, I'm not faulting anyone! Just trying to head off a long string of answers that will just make me jealous and sad about not being able to afford the reader I want  . I really wish the price of larger devices was dropping as fast as the prices of the smaller ones... Still, I hope I'm not putting people off of responding; I really know very little about this topic. I suppose ultimately I'll have to just wait for the release, but it would be nice if someone with experience could tell me, for example, if the 650 (which the T1 is more or less an update of right?) reflows pdfs any better than, say, a pocketbook or nook or kindle or whatever?
That said, in the late 80s and early 90s Toyota was making 4x4 Tercels... One of my friend still rocks one, drives right down onto the beach with kayaks and boards! Umm... I've also noticed that people really like car metaphors on this forum  |
The Sonys have always had a reputation for handling PDFs best and will reflow them if they've been OCRed into text. If each page is a picture, no reader is going to handle it well. I'd be surprised if Sony abandoned that support. You might look to see if you can find a 650 or 950 on clearance as the new models come out. People have reported seeing 650s for as low as $130 and the 950 has a slightly larger screen.
Have you looked at the books available
here at MobileRead? Click on the link to the right of the screen that says "Full List" for a searchable list of books. I don't mean to fault Google Books, but a lot of the free books that they offer have only been scanned and OCRed. Look at them closely and you find lots of errors. The ones here have been proofread, corrected, given tables of content, and illustrations by people with a love of reading and books. I use Calibre to manage my entire library, so have never seen the need to be able to use WiFi or 3G to put books on my reader. My computer is readily available and Calibre does a fantastic job of organizing them to suit me.