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Originally Posted by scotty1024
I'd agree with you Bob if the PRS500 was indeed a "first device", but it isn't.
The Sony Librie had many of the features most people have been drubbing the Reader for not supplying.
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Weeeell, in a sense it is a first device ... kinda.
I see what you're saying, and I actually agree with the point, but they'd probably say that it's their first device in the
U.S. market, and I'd think part of their design changes likely have to do with how dismally the Librié failed in the Japanese market -- that's pure guessing, of course.
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Originally Posted by scotty1024
What astonishes me with this update is that they didn't fix the broken PDF rendering. The fix for the moth eaten text is very simple and I don't understand why Sony didn't implement it.
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Clearly, the reason for this is because they aren't working with you, as I for one, wish they
would.
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Originally Posted by orcinus
... it makes no sense to keep comparing it to a feature set of an average paper back either (especially not if you're doing that just to justify it's shortcomings).... Doesn't that sound logical?
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Yup, it does sound logical, orcinus, but there's another way to look at it. Reading between the lines of what they've said about the matter on various occasions, I think they're very much trying to attract folks who haven't ever, in their entire lives, read anything on an e-reading device. From that perspective, it makes a lot of sense to point out how much like a book the Reader is. It also makes a fair amount of sense not to pile a bunch of features onto it that non-e-readers might
see as useless bragware. A lot of folks are put off by that sort of 'extra' stuff, they see it as things that they'd have to spend extra time and effort 'messing with.'
I'm just pointing out another way to look at it is all.
