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None of your positives is in any way connected to the Sony EBook reader.
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Huh? Are you reading the same text that I am?
1) save trees
Sure, not just the reader does this, but it does.
2) carry a whole library everywhere I go
Same point
3) I love gadgets
Same point again
4) get me off my computer, out of home into the sun and save my eyesight
EInk devices are indeed more readable in sunlight than any other electronic reader.
5) read updated web blogs offline
Same point as #1 yet again ( assuming the reader will do this w/o too much hassle - TBD).
So sure, the reader is not the ONLY way to do these things (what is?), but it (and similar EInk devices) should be an improvement over nearly all of the existing portable devices with regard to # 2-4.
The big issue will be just what form of overall implementation Sony will create and whether they have learned anything form their rather severe mistakes of the past. That will determine whether it is a success or just another Sony gadget for the junk drawer.
Just a note on the DRM - there are, I think, enough non-DRM ebooks out there (
Baen and others) to justify a device at this (lower than Iliad) price point just for those, never minding what Sony sells.
Of course, it also assumes that this thing will actually show up in my lifetime! <G> Sony's record on this is as miserable as all the other electronics companies....
Time will tell.