Quoting from my article
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I’ve bought the reader for three reasons.
1. I want to examine this new technology so I can prepare to develop or design for it.
2. I want to take something to read with me when I’m travelling. This should be lowweight, low energyconsumption and easy to read.
3. But the most important of all (and here comes the connection to our website) I have gigabytes worth of manga scanlations that I never had time to read.
I want to take these mangascanlations with me on a portable reader and read them whenever I have the time.
Granted, I have one of the lightest (and coolest) laptop available on the market, the Samsung Q30, but even with a weight of 1kg, it’s not handy to take it with me on the road. Besides, the energy consumption of the laptop is high. It won’t last a full longhaul flight.
A PDA has the same problems (and the screen is too small), the Sony reader would be perfect.
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I never expected the reader to be capable of reading all types of documents perfectly. Even 2 out of my 4 laptops can't do that due to the limited screensize. Not to speak of all the other gadgets I had.
That's why I investigated first to see if the format the Reader uses can be reproduced and if there are tools available for it. There was, therefor I bought it. And it does what it does.
I'm not sure if the reader was ever supposed to be for quickreads (like news, rss-feeds) as it's not easy to add new content to it (swapping cards or connecting to the PC is "not easy". For quickreads I'd rather use my laptop, phone or PDA. The reader is meant for you to grab something nice to drink, settle yourself in your loungeseat and read for hours.