Hi everybody

mr887 · 10-20-2007, 03:30 PM

Although I'm normally a very vocal Sony-hater, I decided to risk ordering a Reader from an eBay seller in the US. After delivery (two weeks) and the forty quid import tax I got stung for, it cost me a very reasonable (in my opinion, anyway) £200. If the thing ever gets released officially in the UK, I wouldn't be overly surprised to see it retail at twice that.

Having spent three days playing with my Reader, I'm very impressed with it, and so are most of the people I've shown it to (except the one guy who was like, 'it's okay, but ...' before trying to tell me how much more awesome his mobile phone was). Having suffered with reading on Palms and Pocket PCs in the past, the Reader has so far blown me away.

As seems to be the case with most users, the only problem I have had with it is in getting it to work with PDF documents with images in (ie, Cisco books and the like). PDFLRF makes them very readable, however. I also started using Book Designer straight away for novels, which is another awesome application.

I don't read much nowadays (too busy gaming and trawling aimlessly through the web), but I now feel compelled to, and already have a load of novels lined up.

JSWolf · 10-20-2007, 06:41 PM

Welcome to MobileRead Mr887. Glad you found the light with your Sony PRS-500. You'll find lots of help and some excellent tools here for converting content. Enjoy and feel free to jump in to the threads.

Alexander Turcic · 10-20-2007, 06:47 PM

Glad the decision to buy a Sony was right for you, mr887

Who knows, maybe over time the Reader will help Sony to gain a better reputation again

10-20-2007, 03:30 PM	#1
mr887 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: UK Device: PRS-500	Hi everybody Although I'm normally a very vocal Sony-hater, I decided to risk ordering a Reader from an eBay seller in the US. After delivery (two weeks) and the forty quid import tax I got stung for, it cost me a very reasonable (in my opinion, anyway) £200. If the thing ever gets released officially in the UK, I wouldn't be overly surprised to see it retail at twice that. Having spent three days playing with my Reader, I'm very impressed with it, and so are most of the people I've shown it to (except the one guy who was like, 'it's okay, but ...' before trying to tell me how much more awesome his mobile phone was). Having suffered with reading on Palms and Pocket PCs in the past, the Reader has so far blown me away. As seems to be the case with most users, the only problem I have had with it is in getting it to work with PDF documents with images in (ie, Cisco books and the like). PDFLRF makes them very readable, however. I also started using Book Designer straight away for novels, which is another awesome application. I don't read much nowadays (too busy gaming and trawling aimlessly through the web), but I now feel compelled to, and already have a load of novels lined up.

10-20-2007, 06:41 PM	#2
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,743 Karma: 145864619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Welcome to MobileRead Mr887. Glad you found the light with your Sony PRS-500. You'll find lots of help and some excellent tools here for converting content. Enjoy and feel free to jump in to the threads.

10-20-2007, 06:47 PM	#3
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Glad the decision to buy a Sony was right for you, mr887 Who knows, maybe over time the Reader will help Sony to gain a better reputation again

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