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RWood · 08-20-2009, 04:55 PM

When I purchased my Sony PRS-500 in November of 2006 Sony gave a $50 credit at their bookstore plus several fre books preinstalled on the Reader.

As for internal storage, the 500 has one of the smallest amounts of any e-ink unit at 91.9 MB. Given that the average e-book on my unit at the moment is ~500 kB this means that I can carry over 180 titles. The largest e-book is just over 2 MB so I could take over 40 copies of Harry's version of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Omnibus with me.

08-20-2009, 04:55 PM	#41
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	When I purchased my Sony PRS-500 in November of 2006 Sony gave a $50 credit at their bookstore plus several fre books preinstalled on the Reader. As for internal storage, the 500 has one of the smallest amounts of any e-ink unit at 91.9 MB. Given that the average e-book on my unit at the moment is ~500 kB this means that I can carry over 180 titles. The largest e-book is just over 2 MB so I could take over 40 copies of Harry's version of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Omnibus with me.