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Originally Posted by Jiang
Aftering watching these videoes, I was quite impressed, IMHO, it's one of the most mature ebook readers regrading both hardware and firmware part. As for irex reader, there is some power issue, and it's not finger-touchable.
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Sony 900 seems to generate lots of enthusiasm. I'm glad about that, it should further push interest and market value of eBook readers in general.
But (although being fan of all Sony readers myself) I wouldn't compare Sony 900 (or Sony 600) to iRex (neither 1000S nor iLiad).
iRex' units certainly are less "polished", but their UI and quality in my opinion still is superior. Especially concerning PDF capabilities.
For example, I prefer zoom over reflow for PDFs. Simple to explain: The original idea behind PDF always was, "conserving" the layout. Reflow may be fine for casual reads - I don't care about layout when reading James Patterson. But for "professional documents", remaining the original layout untouched is preferable to me. Sony 900 (and 600 or 700) can zoom and reflow. But zoom only remains for a single page. iRex on the other hand is able to use that zoom for an entire document.
There are lots of details like that on iRex: Renaming book title or author directly on the unit itself (iLiad), absolutely no glare (Sony 900 is a vast improvement, but still both iRex' are way superior = identical in quality to Sony 505).
But Sony clearly has the "cool" factor, plus their own bookstore. Plus marketing, plus market share, plus reputation, ...