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Originally Posted by TheMadBrewer
OK, just went down to Boarders and bought one (charging as we speak).
1) I thought only work with memory sticks. Everything else I own takes SD cards and after living through the SmartMedia disaster, I'm not about to go with another format. Especially one from Sony.
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To be honest, you really don't need a memory card at all. Reader compresses books in main memory, and in the 90-odd MB of main memory you can store several hundred books. The "flat" file system is such that you really won't want more than that on it, anyway, I promise you
. The only real reason for using a memory card would be if you were a non PC-user, and had to load content directly onto the card, rather than using the Connect software, or if you want to put MP3 files onto the Reader, but I really wouldn't recommend using it as an MP3 player.
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2) It wasn't clear to me that I could use it to read other formats -- I have a bunch of books from Baen and others that I bought or downloaded for my Garmin iQue and I would want to read them on any new device. I also didn't want to be tied to Sony, because from the blurb I read it sounded like you could only get content from Sony.
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You're right - the web site is
very confusing - last time I looked at it it said that Sony "Supplied software to convert other formats to the Sony e-Book format" or some such nonsense. The situation, as you know, is that the Reader handles formats such as text, RTF, and PDF "natively". There's no conversion.
Congratulations on buying a Reader - I don't think you'll regret it!