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Originally Posted by azayn
I dug mine out from the crawlspace last year and to my surprise it still powered on. I did have to order a mini USB cable to charge it though but otherwise, it's still a very usable reader despite having no touch screen. There was an update Sony put out years ago that allowed them to read epubs and improved text clarity.
Ended up giving it away to a friend as I already have a Kindle and a Kobo. It made me realize that e-readers almost never become obsolete. At the end of the day, it's just a a device for displaying black text on a white background. The rest is just bells and whistles.
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Actually, they do become obsolete. Kindle's that cannot handle KF8 are obsolete. All Sony Readers except the T3 are obsolete because they do not support a new enough RMSDK that has hyphenation. Only the T3 has an RMSDK that supports hyphenation.
While is may not be the hardware, the software can make the Reader obsolete.