This is an interesting question, so I thought I would answer it here.
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Originally Posted by alophind
Why do you buy Iliad if you have the SONY ? Isn't it enough ?
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The Sony Reader is only good for reading books. It does this very well, but that's all it does. It's just not enough. I want to be able to annotate text. I want a device I can copy paragraphs out of an article for research.
It's really the touchscreen that makes this possible, that I want the most. If there was a 6" touchscreen Eink device I would get it instead of the Iliad. I don't care about the screen size.
My other gripe the the PRS500 is that I don't like the way that Sony decided to develop it. Everyone here should be familiar with my position on the format conversion software; but I also have other concerns. Why are there no games on the Reader(there are several that are possible on the hardware)? Where is the SDK? Where are the viewers for other formats? I feel that Sony is blindly dedicated to the sole control of this device to the point that they are smothering a really nice piece of hardware.
I won't have the money to get the Iliad until mid September. I plan to keep an eye on tech news, and if a new Eink device with a touchscreen is announced I may get it instead of the Iliad. After I get the new device, I plan to keep my Sony Reader in my car for when I am stuck in traffic. I expect to get at least a half hour use out of it everyday.
If I get the Iliad, I plan on porting games to it in Linux and Java, and hopefully writing a few.