Thanks so much. That really helps. After seeing your pics, both are acceptable, although I am leaning towards the irex now. Still, depending on the wait to get it, I might end up with the sony 900 instead - I'm not the patient type.
One other question that occurs to me - I think you said somewhere in these many pages that you find holding the sony 900 easier than the irex 800. Can you hold the 800 with one hand for long reading periods? I do have rather small hands, so that might be a problem.
Again, thanks so much for the quick reply.
Lynn
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Originally Posted by mgmueller
If you're fine with Sony 700, you'll love Sony 600 and you'll worship Sony 900.
But iRex 800 will win hands down concerning crispness of the screen.
Still, Sony 900 is perfectly readable.
I'm comparing Jeffrey Archer's "A Prisoner of Birth", the first .epub I've found on both.
iRex 800 does show more information per page than Sony 900.
(Sorry for the picture quality, deepest night here already).
As far as I know, since yesterday, iRex 800 is available (pre-order?) in the US. Cheaper than in Europe  .
Check out the last few threads in the iRex 1000S forum.
Or http://www.bestbuy.com/site/IREX+-+D...r800&cp=1&lp=1
Concerning "frequently checking".
Sony 900 (but so do all my Sony readers) checks for new content when starting the unit. Or when re-inserting a card. Or when disconnecting from PC. Or...
Most other readers seem to track any changes to the memory, whereas Sony seems to check the entire file structure. Lots of users claim, it takes minutes or even hours for them to index their library.
On iRex, I don't recognise this at all. Either it's indexing in the background or directly when saving content to memory.
To me, it's not a huge problem with Sony, but it becomes pretty obvious when playing around with tons of files. |