Thread: First Impressions of the PRS-700
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Old 11-16-2008, 04:11 AM   #64
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Originally Posted by DerHund View Post
Judging from the posting frequency of abermp, it could also be an sony employee justifying a buy for the 700.
Having seen the 700 screen in comparision to the 505, I really cannot understand why anybody would buy a 700...
Sony, you just screwed up on this device...
Come on ...
Do you have some proof, or you just simply think that if you do not like it, there is nobody that does?

I know people that are HAPPY reading from a very small cell phone display. I personally shudder when I imagine reading several hundred books from a tiny display, yet there definitely are people that like it that way. Japanese even write (!!!!) novels on their cell phones while commuting. I personally hate writing even short SMS messages using 10 buttons, and I only use about 26 letters and not thousands characters in four different "alphabets" (**) <SHUDDER>

I am a happy owner of PRS-500. I have read many hundred books on it and I carry it *everywhere*. It does have many shortcomings, yet I am quite content with the quality of its 19 months old display (the display loses crispness a little bit as it ages). I also do not think that the speed of the unit is an issue. I only open a new book about once a day and it is no problem for me to wait a little. Yet, in previous posts a few people declared PRS-500 unuseable because of its speed.

I was fancying buying a new reader, but I will have to wait until I see PRS-700 in person. That might be a problem, because at the moment I live in the Central Europe. If I was in the USA, I would simply go to the shop with my trusty 500 in my hand and a card containing a book or two formatted the way I like it in my pocket and compare the units.

If the 700 contained folder support and an indication (or sorting) of the books based on where in the book you are just reading (page 1 - bold name of the book, last page - grey title, middle of the book - a little icon indicating where you are) I would probably buy it without seeing it.

(**) Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji, Latin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system
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