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I'm underwhelmed by Sony's latest reader. IMHO the Kindle DX is way better than the Sony Daily Reader. The screen on the Sony device is simply just too small. I really don't understand what Sony was thinking here. The DX can display textbooks, manuals, magazines, full-page PDFs, sheet music, manga, etc. The Sony screen isn't wide enough to do these things, and I'm shocked that Sony enthusiast aren't really pissed off with this Sony right now.
The Kindle DX isn't perfect. It displays PDFs just fine, but PDF support is missing features like annotation, highlighting, etc. Will Sony's PDF support be better? Who knows, but the fact that they can't display a legible 8.5x11 page on their device kind of makes the point moot.
I don't understand why Amazon hasn't implemented folders yet, but once again Sony kind of sucks here too (just not as bad as Amazon).
Epub support is a definate plus for Sony. I prefer the ePub format over the AMZ format, but I'm kind of glad that Amazon doesn't support ePub, because I can remove the AMZ DRM but not the ePub DRM. I'd rather have a mobi file without DRM than an ePub file with DRM.
Bottom line, Sony hasn't provided a device that needs countering.
Last edited by Daithi; 08-26-2009 at 12:19 PM.
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