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Originally Posted by Elsi
After using a Kindle for 5 months, I decided to purchase a Sony PRS 505 -- not as a replacement for the Kindle, but as an additional eBook reader. My reasons:
1. I ventured into creating books from Gutenberg source files and really wanted to see the .lrf versions in action.
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While the experience is not identical. The SONY Connect emulator is petty darn accurate. There is only one instance where I see discrepancy from the emulator to the Reader. That is when I'm using PDFLRF some how the images on the emulator do not look as good as they do on the device.
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Originally Posted by Elsi
2. I wanted to be able to honestly compare the experience of reading on the two devices
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I'd be interested in hearing your experience. I read technical books, non-fiction, fiction. Where I heavily annotate on the former. I'd be interested to hear your usage of the device
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Originally Posted by Elsi
3. With the most recent firmware upgrade, I wanted to experiment with ePub format books -- particularly since it looks like this standard allow much nicer styling than either the native .lrf or .mobi formats.
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ePub has the potential, but unless you read technical books I'm not sure if you will experience it's full benefit.
Also check out this epub version it is quite nice
http://www.hindawi.com/epub/sample.2.2008.07.28.epub
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Originally Posted by Elsi
4. I wanted to be able to compare shopping for current release books -- price, quality, etc.
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Here is were you will be disappointed with the SONY Reader/Bookstore. The kindle just seems to continually have the best prices. I've seen rare cases where FictionWise or BoB have better prices but those cases are rare. (Well excluding FictionWise 100% rebate)
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My sister and niece also have Kindles -- all on the same Amazon account with my Kindle, which allows us to share all the purchased books. So -- in those situations where I have to buy a book with DRM protection, Amazon's deal that allows you to have up to 6 Kindles registered to the same account and to share content on all the devices make it a winner.
I'm going to investigate the "multiple device" situation for the Sony Reader. Maybe the same policy exists at the Sony store and other sellers of Sony DRMed content. We'll see.
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Yes SONY does support "multiple device" for their eBook store so you may share books if the devices are registered to the same account. I don't recall the limit it's either 3 or 6.
Its been a while since I've used their and software account, I only bought one book from them.