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richman · 07-30-2009, 07:15 PM

Gee, this would be your first ereader and you are doing your research and asking around. That is the way to do it.
The 505 as you suggested is probably ok for some of your needs and you will love the 2-3 week battery life on it. The sony-google stuff will work and lots of pdf's are converted easily with calibre. And if you are older person you can make the font sizes any way you like it. If you can pick one up cheap for 150 like I did with sony deal , or get one like borders had on sale for 199 a few weeks ago, that wouldn't be bad way to go with minimum expense. You are right about no search feature so you have to go into it knowing that up front , like you do. But you can put text files, pdf's in book format, and other formats on it and convert stuff . You could go high end but you are just starting and I would start out low end and good low end, that is why I went 505.
If you pleasure read you probably will like it, but if you want search and other features , you could spend 800 for irex 1000s , but you could pick up touch screen hp laptop for 750 , so I don't know if I would spend 800 on ereader.
You can go itouch for 200 dollars and I do have an itouch, but I prefer to read on the 505 and the 505 does seem a lot like reading a book. I have 30 or 40 books on mine, and newspaper feeds Newsweek, USA today, and a number of others, and it is nice to change books in 20 seconds and it remembers last page I was at.
You are right , new ones are coming out, so you could wait another year, and something that does what you like probably and hopefully will be cheaper. The other guys here will give you good suggestions too, some of these guys have a number of these devices.

07-30-2009, 07:15 PM	#2
richman Addict Posts: 269 Karma: 58 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: sony prs-505 BLUE,itouch,netbook	Gee, this would be your first ereader and you are doing your research and asking around. That is the way to do it. The 505 as you suggested is probably ok for some of your needs and you will love the 2-3 week battery life on it. The sony-google stuff will work and lots of pdf's are converted easily with calibre. And if you are older person you can make the font sizes any way you like it. If you can pick one up cheap for 150 like I did with sony deal , or get one like borders had on sale for 199 a few weeks ago, that wouldn't be bad way to go with minimum expense. You are right about no search feature so you have to go into it knowing that up front , like you do. But you can put text files, pdf's in book format, and other formats on it and convert stuff . You could go high end but you are just starting and I would start out low end and good low end, that is why I went 505. If you pleasure read you probably will like it, but if you want search and other features , you could spend 800 for irex 1000s , but you could pick up touch screen hp laptop for 750 , so I don't know if I would spend 800 on ereader. You can go itouch for 200 dollars and I do have an itouch, but I prefer to read on the 505 and the 505 does seem a lot like reading a book. I have 30 or 40 books on mine, and newspaper feeds Newsweek, USA today, and a number of others, and it is nice to change books in 20 seconds and it remembers last page I was at. You are right , new ones are coming out, so you could wait another year, and something that does what you like probably and hopefully will be cheaper. The other guys here will give you good suggestions too, some of these guys have a number of these devices.