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Originally Posted by peaceridge
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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I prefer the form factor of Sony 900. Actually, that's one of the main reasons why I'm ranking it #1.
And I simply love Sony's minimalistic though elegant design.
Usually, I read with covers on the readers.
With Sony 900, that's no problem at all. Neither the reader, nor the opened cover to the left in any way are distracting or annoying.
With iRex 800, it's slightly different.
First of all, I urgently need another cover. I absolutely don't like the white one from iRex. Eagerly waiting for M-Edge, Noreve or whomever.
Second, iRex 800 is significantly wider and the opened cover the same. It's within the acceptable range, but to me it's at the upper limit (Kindle DX being above that limit).
Without the cover, it wouldn't be a problem at all, but that's not my usual reading habit.
To sum up:
If you don't care about the price, it's really a close match.
If you put screen clarity and crispness above all, iRex 800 clearly ranks first. It's extremely close or maybe even to my benchmark readers without touchscreen. Probably one of the main reasons for the higher price...
If you put the "cool factor" and design above all, to me Sony 900 definitely ranks first. Not just against iRex 800, but against most of all other readers (maybe nook comes close, but not quite).
In speed and usability they're about equal.
If you care about open OS and 3rd party applications, you probably can expect lots of efforts on iRex 800. Haven't seen anything similar on any Sony unit so far.
What I'd like to mention
extremely positively:
iRex' developers did join the discussion. They gave us tips right in this forum and even did solve one problem (initially, no folder support) for us.