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Originally Posted by Richwood
My digital scale says otherwise and checks in agreement with Amazon's Kindle weights within 1/20 ounce. That tells me that the weight you found listed for the PRS-T3 IS WRONG.
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I can confirm that. My Sony PRS-T3 with lighted case is 214.1 grams, which comes out to 7.5521553 ounces. My next smallest (lighted) eReader is the Tolino Shine 3 (Clara hardware twin). With a Fintie cover it weighs 265.5 grams (9.3652369 ounces). But it's thicker and wider than the T3, though I don't have the thinnest case available. (The Shine 3, without a case, is 164.4 grams or 5.8 ounces.)
PocketBook has produced some really small and light eReaders in their newest generation, but they don't quite match the Sony T3's size or weight (when factoring in a case). The HD 3 (for example, the "fanciest" of their 6" readers) weighs 155 grams, and has dimensions of 161.3 x 108 x 8 mm. It features Text to Talk (via USB adapter or Bluetooth), water resistance (HZO), 300 dpi, 16 GBs "warm" lighting and page turn buttons (this model doesn't have a microSD slot, like many of the Pocketbooks still have). It also can handle ASCM files directly (so you can buy or borrow protected ePubs online with its Web Browser). It looks like these can be bought from Tech Inn (I think an English outfit that ships to the U.S.) for $140 plus $8 s/h. (Can't personally vouch for them.)
https://www.techinn.com/en/pocketboo...-6/137356320/p
PocketBook has a full line that uses this form factor (same weight and size). They have the non-touch Basic Lux 2, front-lit, 212 ppi, 8GB (plus microSD slot) $79 + $8 s/h. The Touch Lux 4 (adds a touch screen to the Basic Lux 2 features, plus 512MB RAM instead of 256MB) for $108 + $8 s/h. (Some of their models still use the older form factor.) All PocketBooks are supposed to be able to use 17 eBook formats (PDF, PDF(DRM), EPUB, EPUB(DRM), DJVU, FB2, FB2.ZIP, DOC, DOCX, RTF, PRC, TXT, CHM, HTM, HTML, MOBI, ACSM).
A comparison of these three models...
https://www.pocketbook-int.com/us/pr...31+80341+85911
At any rate, right now I have a PocketBook 615 (original Basic Lux with Pearl screen and without WiFi which weighs 5.7 ounces, without a case) and i like the way it displays text — so (down the line) I'm probably going to pick up one of these new generation versions. If I can really borrow from Overdrive and buy protected ePubs directly from bookstores with these (without WiFi I can't test that), they seem like about the perfect eReader for me. (The Tolinos are nice, but I like that the PocketBoooks have many more choices in text size and the 615 seems to render my fonts better.)