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Liviu_5 · 08-10-2007, 09:42 PM

After having the device for about 10 days now and reading from it about 3000 pages, I would like to share my impressions:

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- impressive display especially in daylight
- lack of backlight not that big an issue as expected since I can read on it with my little booklight dimmed, which I could not do on a print book because of double pages
- excellent size with appropriate font - usually I hate print pb's because of font size, love hc's or tpb's though they are more unwieldy, Sony is just right having a very nice size and adjustable font
- ok for appropriately prepared pdf/djvu/image scans
- nicer for my ocr'ed scans than 770 because of bigger screen that allows me to see easier the typos
- easy use tools for converting to lrf which is the best format for it in my opinion - here big thanks to the creator of libprs, especially the lit2lrf since I usually do a fast lit book from my rtf/html file with the free MsWord tool, and then use lit2lrf - I do it this way since it works better than going from rtf directly for some reason
- enough internal memory for more than a hundred novels since lrf is a compressed format, so I do not need a memory card
- nice bookmarking and page memory features that help a lot in navigation

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- The one big minus is very slow navigation in a book or between books. Page by page turning and going back to recent pages that are in your history are ok, though still slower than on my 770 or on my Ebk, but otherwise the navigation is sometimes unbearably slow, so my reading on it is considerably slower than on the other 2 devices. I read a 600 print hc page book on it and I am reading another similar one now and enjoyed the experience a lot because both books keep me interested page to page, but on a 300 print hc page book that bored me from time to time so I felt the need to go fast through it, I went back to my 770 to finish it, and I shudder at the thought of trying to read magazines or ss collections on it.

Overall, I expect I will be using the PRS more than I have expected, probably about 50%, with 770 the other 50% depending on the particular book(s) I am reading, with sadly the Ebk1150 relegated to very rare use.

08-10-2007, 09:42 PM	#1
Liviu_5 Books and more books Posts: 917 Karma: 69499 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: White Plains, NY, USA Device: Nook Color, Itouch, Nokia770, Sony 650, Sony 700(dead), Ebk(given)	Sony reader pluses and minuses After having the device for about 10 days now and reading from it about 3000 pages, I would like to share my impressions: +++ - impressive display especially in daylight - lack of backlight not that big an issue as expected since I can read on it with my little booklight dimmed, which I could not do on a print book because of double pages - excellent size with appropriate font - usually I hate print pb's because of font size, love hc's or tpb's though they are more unwieldy, Sony is just right having a very nice size and adjustable font - ok for appropriately prepared pdf/djvu/image scans - nicer for my ocr'ed scans than 770 because of bigger screen that allows me to see easier the typos - easy use tools for converting to lrf which is the best format for it in my opinion - here big thanks to the creator of libprs, especially the lit2lrf since I usually do a fast lit book from my rtf/html file with the free MsWord tool, and then use lit2lrf - I do it this way since it works better than going from rtf directly for some reason - enough internal memory for more than a hundred novels since lrf is a compressed format, so I do not need a memory card - nice bookmarking and page memory features that help a lot in navigation - - The one big minus is very slow navigation in a book or between books. Page by page turning and going back to recent pages that are in your history are ok, though still slower than on my 770 or on my Ebk, but otherwise the navigation is sometimes unbearably slow, so my reading on it is considerably slower than on the other 2 devices. I read a 600 print hc page book on it and I am reading another similar one now and enjoyed the experience a lot because both books keep me interested page to page, but on a 300 print hc page book that bored me from time to time so I felt the need to go fast through it, I went back to my 770 to finish it, and I shudder at the thought of trying to read magazines or ss collections on it. Overall, I expect I will be using the PRS more than I have expected, probably about 50%, with 770 the other 50% depending on the particular book(s) I am reading, with sadly the Ebk1150 relegated to very rare use.