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Originally Posted by Journier
Hey FizzyWatter (How come I suddenly got a yen for bathtub gin?), noticed you have a 505. How do you like your 600 compared to the other?
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I'm enjoying my 600 very much. You have to understand, I started with an eBookwise and I've missed the ability to make notes (identify OCR errors to go back and correct, generally) and to search within a book ever since I switched to eInk.
The dictionary is a nice bonus (I was reading a non-fiction book on the 1918 flu epidemic recently and could have used it then!), even if it wasn't a "must-have" thing for me.
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love the search feature within the table of contents, as well as the new ability to click on a letter of the alphabet to take me to that section of the TOC. (Did I mention I have 1300 books on my MemoryStick?) The 505 was a vast improvement on the 500 in the management of the TOC for book-hoarders like me, and I think the 600 is another strong step up.
Yep, the screen's ... uh, reflectiveness (don't want to say glare, y'know) ... is significantly greater than the 505. I have to wiggle the screen around a bit to find a good reading angle and avoid the ... reflected light ... and my own reflected face! But I tend to read during lunch at work and at home at night after. (Okay, and in line at the post office, grocery store, Target, etc.) The reflectivity is no greater than I had with the eBookwise, though, so it's not something I've never worked around before.
I also would say that there's a noticeable - but small - difference in ... what would I call it? Contrast? I find myself increasing a font size automatically at home (not great lighting at home) to offset. I did that with the 505 sometimes, too, just not so automatically. I do think Sony should have made the increments between the 5 font sizes smaller. I really have a hard time imagining anyone reading at the XXL size. But I tend to build my ebooks in Calibre so that the S is my comfortable font size to start with. So maybe a purchased ebook that begins smaller would be one I'd go higher than M on...)
I'm very happy with the purchase and will hang on to the 505 as a backup reader. Today I gave my eBookwise to a coworker who's been borrowing it for the last couple of years (since I got the 500, actually). And I have another friend who actually seems to like that stupid Cybook and will likely be taking it off my hands soon (despite my attempts to sway her to just get a new 300 or 600!)
Finally - and I guess this makes me shallow - but I just love the red 600! It's so much "sexier" than the "dark blue" 500 or 505.
(Oh, and feel free to top off your hip flask from the tub!)