The Wall Street Journal's Lee Gomes gave the Sony Reader a spin, weighed in with his thoughts.
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It is a truth universally unacknowledged that reading a book for pleasure involves a lot of hard work. You have to fight to keep it open and pressed flat, and just when you've comfortably arranged everything, you have to turn the page and start all over again. Naturally, you need to do all this without bothering the cat.
You may not appreciate these difficulties only because you've never had an alternative to a book for comparison. The Sony Reader is slim, light and can be held in one hand. To go to the next page, you just nudge it with your thumb.
Yes, there are things not to like about reading for pleasure on a computer screen, even for generic, text-only paperbacks. You have to forgo the stories that books themselves can tell with all their stains and scribbles. And when you're done reading, you don't get to put another trophy on your bookshelf.
In exchange, though, you get to put an entire bookshelf in your pocket.
We surrender charm and tradition; in return, we get convenience and abundance. With computers, it's always the same compromise.
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Also, Mr. Gomes mentions that he enjoyed rereading "Pride and Prejudice" on his Reader, which makes me wonder... did he perhaps download it from
here?
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