Some time ago I got PRS505, and I must tell I'm pretty happy with it. After years of reading stuff from a Palm device, Sony Reader is a salvation to my eyes. But I've started to think recently what I can replace my Reader with. Provided of course there's a device that would solve the problems I have with my device
My main gripe when it comes to 505 is the way it handles PDFs. Reflow is great, but sadly it doesn't solve the problem when the book you're reading is technical. Any programming book that has some code in it is problematic - after reflow code snippets are either messed up (lines smashed together). When I look at
those pictures of Kindle, I'm wondering whether just getting larger screen would solve my problems. Rotating the reader to landscape is another solution, but it isn't exactly convenient thing to do when you read while walking.
"Read while it's dark outside" is another nuisance. I got myself Sony's light wedge, and it does the trick, more or less (at the expense of making the reader "package" much thicker). I understand that because of way eInk screens work, it's very hard to solve that problem, but perhaps there's some device that managed to do so?
Apart from the above, I'd like the next $device to be "as good as" 505. I'm happy with page turning speed, battery life, and set of features of my 505 - don't need annotations, hell, I don't even need mp3 player. Fulltext search would be a neat thing, but I'm kind of afraid that with puny CPU search is not that useful. For the same reason I don't think I need any kind of wireless connectivity, as the web browsing would most likely be a painful experience
On the other hand, some access to reformatted Wikipedia might give me the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
The question goes out to you, dear forum users. Can you recommend any other device basing on the constraints above?