"The 300 has a great, clear screen (characters are sharper than the 505's under magnification!), and all I need is a device to read lots of books--no wireless, memory cards, mp3, dictionary, touchscreen. The 300 is great for this. Still shows pages of text and stores hundreds of novels with a great e-ink display and extended battery life. I throw my 300 in my front pants pocket with no problem--the 505 had far fewer options for a guy to carry around."
The above is taken from another thread which makes the 300 sound very attractive to me. I was originally going for the 505 but I cannot find it at the magic $199 price range anymore. It's more like $270~ now wherever I turn.
also I wish to buy 2x(505) - one for my brother who has his birthday next month and i should mention that I don't live in the United States so there's shipping on top !!
After seeing how comics are displayed on the 300, I am quite pleased.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19625804/S...-PRS300-Review
also, most of my reading material are in pdf format.
A lot of pdf books are quite large in size 35Megs +
But the internal memory is about 443Megs . . . sounds like you can only hold
around 10 or 20 books on PDF not some 350 as claimed by Sony's advertising.
When converting PDF files to Sony's RTF is there a significant reduction in file sizes ? How about converting comics ?
I guess that's the real factor I'm weighing up on purchase is memory size.
How many manga/comics roughly . . . can i fit in this unit, and pdf books ?
What's a realistic answer ?
If the 300 had SD memory slot as the big brother 505, I would be very happy.
Maybe it isn't necessary . . .
Talk me into being happy for a purchase of PRS-300 or not.
Thanks !
