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Originally Posted by Tony1988
Good points.  What about the 505 is irreplaceable. I do like the sonys and that looks like a very nice reader.(It was the generation before the blunder with the shiny screen correct???) |
Yes, before the shiny screen. The combination of features I can't get anywhere else:
1)
Buttons, not touchscreen. I don't have to navigate through a morass of dropdowns to move around. Some newer non-Sonys have this; new Sonys have gone to touchscreens.
2) LRF and
RTF support; I believe both of those have been dropped. LRF is minor for me (I have a few ebooks, but not many); lack of support for an editable doc type is one of my main reasons for not "upgrading" to a newer device. My experiences with the PEZ are such that I won't risk another device without checking how its support works.
3) Docs
listed by metadata, not doc title. This also exists on the Kindle, but the filetype support is so different I have no interest in it.
4)
Listing by Title, Author or Date Loaded. (Plus, I suppose, tags/keywords, but I don't bother using the additional software it'd take to set those. I move ebooks & other docs on & off the device from several computers; I'm never going to want to filter everything through a library program.)