readability - Both sony and Kindle can resize the text. Sony can now reflow text based PDFs(which it can nativly read) so the resize is effective with them now. It used to only squeeze the entire page onto one screen with no resize possible. Got a microscope!? Bonehead sony move.
replaceable battery - Kindle1 only. All others its a case cracking geek who can replace it. and thats just not advisable.
light to read in the dark - Book lights needed for all but the sony 700.
built-in dictionary - Kindles only. But you can probably download a version for the sony readers, just harder to work with.
support for a variety of formats - Best program i've found is Calibre, it can convert from many formats to the 3 big ones. outputs are LRF (BBeB), Epub, Mobi.
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
ability to buy other than from amazon - buy buy buy. everyone likes to buy. except me. I like to Acquire! It sounds.. more romantic don't you agree?
sturdiness - Sony 505's metal case makes it feel sturdy but I still wouldn't want to put it to the test.
memory card access- Sony readers and Kindle1 only. K2 ramped up the internal space but no way to put books into their own Series (Album) The Sonys do with Collections.
I have heard that the older versions of each brand are easier to read, but the newer ones are faster but have glare. I have only ever seen a Kindle 1, briefly, but it looked good as far as readability.-- Sony 505 is very easy to read, it also has glare if you pick the perfect angle to bounce the light source off the screen into your eyes. a slight position change and you're gold.
I also use a macbook. I have an old PC, but it is unreliable sometimes. Ability to download via whispernet is not important to me as long as I can get books on the reader via my mac.
I will say Calibre again.
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
It works on Windows, Mac, Linux.
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At the moment, it has support for the SONY PRS 500/505/700, Cybook Gen 3, Amazon Kindle (1 and 2) and the iPhone (with the stanza reader software).
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I use Calibre instead of the sonyware (due to a deep loathing hatred of sony in general but the 505 is cool)
The 100 free books on the Sony is leaning me that way...but I think readability is my first concern.
I would be grateful for any pros / cons, or other information. Or is there another brand I am overlooking? Any helpful information is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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