The article does mention that it is taking it to the hardest place for it be accepted. But I still content that there are some good points:
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Even dusty old diehards find it hard not to be seduced by Sony’s glossy little gadget. “It’s very pretty,” Miss Cummings conceded. “Very nice.”
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unlike a conventional computer screen, it is possible to read it in bright daylight.
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Even readers with poor eyesight are accommodated by a button that enlarges the type size.
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In the UK at least, all too many journalists are prone to not doing as little legwork as possible for an article (or so it seems to me -- with apologies to those journalists that do get out there). This one has gone and asked at least someone, and with the panel article that is on the same page (that igorsk has linked to) in the printed article is pretty good, showing someone who has at least tried the device:
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The Sony Reader can also play music, though it cannot play video, and it is a gadget that is hard not to covet; its display makes the pages appear almost like paper. It is a significant technological advance.
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The comments are much as you'd expect. The main point is that it does make people talk about it. There will always be people who hate new technology. I still can't stand mobile phones.....
