The Sony Reader has received a lot of
unfavorable press in mainstream media. This week, Forbes correspondent and Digital Duo co-host Stephen Manes
joins the crowd by declaring, "Sometimes analog is better. For now the iPod of the literary world remains a philosophical construct, not an electronic one."
It seems when Mr. Manes looked at the Reader, he was all consumed by negative psychic energy, and he couldn't help himself, but to point out a mass of shortcomings (yes, we heard them all before): the small screen, "painfully gray-on-gray" low contrast, "lethargic" interface, missing search, missing built-in dictionary, missing speaker, "only" 64MB, and a "skimpy" book selection.
I don't know about you, but personally I find mainstream journalism on gadgets pretty boring these days. Most of it lacks creativity, humor and spine, and it's sad to see how the notion of
investigative reporting seems to have lost its appeal. Otherwise, I am sure, Mr. Manes would have discovered this forum and perhaps also one or the other positive aspect about the Reader.