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Originally Posted by happysnapper22
My wife had a Sony eReader (PRS 600 or something like that) yep slick physical design, seemed to be well put together, trouble started to want to read something on it. Truly awful software that made it hard to get content on the device and when you did the screen was awful. Put us both off eReaders for many years. When we finally looked at a Kindle in our local supermarket we purchased on the spot.
Sony eReader was sold on almost unused, Kindle hardly ever out of wife's hand, first basic Kindle, then PW1 followed by PW2 and now KV. Fab devices to read from and that's all that really counts in the end.
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To be fair to Sony, the PRS-600 was by far the worst screen they ever produced. This was because it was the first touch-screen ereader, but they elected to use a resistive touch technology which, unfortunately, used a rather reflective and less than entirely transparent above the e-ink display.
The first e-ink reader available outside Japan, the PRS-500, was what started all of this. It was revolutionary, built like a tank, and very, very usable. The follow-up model, the PRS-505, set the benchmark for build quality, which still may not have been equaled, although the Voyage is a very nice device. I was very sad to see Sony disappear from a market that it pioneered.