It's my second day with the PRS-700. I'm evaluating if I like this whole ebook enterprise. The idea is good, especially I think for those of us who have lots of PDF documents which we haven't yet read but have collected for our scholarly research. What seems to be sorely lacking is good software to manage these various PDFs and books. Yes, there is Calibre but from what I can see so far if one has several hundred PDFs, Calibre doesn't seem to be a very good organising program for such a large library. I do use a citation management software called EndNote that keeps my PDF and references together and it does a wonderful job. Unfortunately, it wasn't built with ebook readers in mind so it doesn't manage ebook readers. So, those are my thoughts on this whole ebook business so far.
Regarding the PRS-700, it's a good machine but there are several things I would like to see change:
- Lock - I would like to see a lock button when switched, none of the buttons would operate. Right now, whenever I close my PRS-700's cover, it is easy to depress the buttons accidentally and flip through several pages of what I'm currently reading
- More sensitive touchscreen--I like the sensitivity of the iPod Touch and iPhone and would like to see the PRS-700 emulate that. I know the iPhone touchscreen and PRS-700 works in different ways. Whereas the iPhone touchsreen calculates electricity difference (something like that), the PRS-700 is pressure sensitive
- Better zoom features for PDF files
- Dictionary--a lot of people have been craving this. I'd like to see a built-in dictionary support feature.
These are some of my preliminary thoughts on the PRS-700, after using it for two days.