Thread: New Sony model to be called PRS-300 and PRS-600
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Old 07-30-2009, 02:37 PM   #99
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Originally Posted by Kostas View Post
And who needs a card with 440 Mb internal memory? It's enough memory for 400-500 ebooks.
I never understood why people would want to have their whole library on their device. I don't think that anyone of us can read more than 50-100 in a whole year.
It's enough memory for 400-500 .lrf or .epub ebooks. (Well, 300-400 ebooks. 1.5mb ebooks are fairly common. No idea what Sony does with their LRX files that makes them so large.) PDFs, even relatively small ones, are often 3-7mb each. Scanned or image-only PDFs are huge; a 64-pg graphic novel can easily be 18mb.

And while image-based PDFs are certainly not the intended main use of a 5" ebook reader, that doesn't mean they go away.

Sony's 5" ebook reader:
No expansion card
No expectation of folder support
No side page turn buttons
No mp3 (which I don't use now, but I expect some people care about)
Older CPU

The Aztak Pocket Pro is looking better and better.

Anybody want to bet whether the PRS-300 will cost less than the Pocket Pro? I'm guessing that, since the 505 had a Sony price of $300 (nevermind how easy it was to find $270 in a dozen places online, and $250 with a diligent search), the PRS-300 may have a list price of $249. Maybe $229. I'm not expecting to see it listed at $200 or less.
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