Just bought a Sony ebook Reader PRS 300 from the B&H. I ordered just before the Christmas holiday and received today.
Seems working well so far(Still charging it and copying a few books into it)
E-ink technology and ebook reader is very poorly known in Hong Kong. I went to look around in local computer shopping malls. I only find one nook(or what I believe what it was), selling at HKD$3000. It seems that everybody only cares about mp3 players/ portable media players. Well, with the whole lots of mp3s/ movies/ comics, I suppose few people ever read books(with text) nowadays...
Likely e-book reader won't ever have a market in Hong Kong? I still wish they won't be getting out of the market someday. That will be so sad.
10 years ago, in the era of Palm/PDA. I bought my first PDA and discover how great was a portable e-book reader. Then I bought few more PDA until recently my Sony TH-55 just broke down. So bad Sony will not produce Clie anymore.
Yes, the screen of a PDA were so small and my eyes become so tired after long reading. As I'm gaining a bit of age the situation is getting worse. (Although I'm only 30...)
I enjoy surfing the Amazon and come across the Kindles and was wondering why it's so hot recently. Then I read through a lot of websites, product reviews about dedicated ebook devices and finally get my way to here - the mobile read. I decide try the E-ink device. I chose Sony because of the good-looking design and happy experience with the Clie.
I'm Chinese but I love reading Japanese novels, and in Japanese. What a pity all the ebook reader does not support Japanese now. I get addicted to a writer whose books are usually over 1 thousand pages and very heavy. I'd like to read them again someday.
Therefore I think of reading the PDF/jpeg file which I download from the web, with the Sony reader. After some research, I learnt to convert the image files into the BBeB format. Before I get the reader, I already did some conversion. And fortunately, they works!
On Japanese webs, some people also enjoy reading with Sony reader, some use the older model PRS 505, some buy the latest one PRS 600. Well, I think they are right, Japanese prints(they print their novels in small size - the books are just about same size as PRS 300) on the PRS 300 screen is quite small. But readable... Anyway I'll keep trying!
I'm quite impressed with the speed of page turning. I try to load a 60MB Japanese book. Apart from the loading take some longer time, page turning is the same. Just like reading a real book. On Youtube I saw someone upload a video showing how slow the older reader(PRS 505) was when reading PDF. And I was quite worried. Luckily, that does not apply to my PRS 300!
Cheers!!
