does the 350 have the same resolution as 650 ?

[FizzyWater]

Well, I hadn't heard that, but that doesn't mean you're not right.

To be honest, I prefer B&N's DRM. If B&N went out of business tomorrow, my copies of B&N ebooks will be readable as long as I have a copy of the software and remember my own name and credit card number.

On the other hand, if Adobe decides to change it's DRM scheme (which it's done at least once in the past), I'm screwed as soon as I upgrade my computer.

(This all assumes I don't liberate my ebooks, of course).

I'm sorry about the stupid geographic restrictions...I'll admit, as a US citizen, I haven't been very sympathetic about that in the past. But some recent experiences trying to find books I could be with a gift certificate I was given to an Irish ebook site has brought home to me how frustrating it could be!

[simplyparticular]

Originally Posted by colonel

the reason I ask, is does the 350 have the same amount of words on the screen at the same time, but smaller ?

if so I would prefer the prs-350.
if not, I would get the prs-650

See this post here for pictures:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...98#post1120498

[Wetdogeared]

Originally Posted by igorsk

Thanks for checking. I guess I was wrong then

Originally Posted by simplyparticular

See this post here for pictures:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...98#post1120498

It appears you were right.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by slantybard

I had heard that there might be an issue with B&N not allowing Sony and others to use their ADE ePub DRM version. B&N is partly to blame for being stupid in 2 areas:

1. They chose a DRM flavour that is different than everyone else's which fragments ePub further and confuses customers who just want to buy and read.

2. They will only sell to US billing addresses.

B&N has an agreement with Adobe and aren't able to allow or disallow a manufacturer to not use both method of enryption, B&N DRM is essentially just another flavor of Adobe DRM now. B&N's DRM is Adobe DRM with a different "key" method ("regular" Adobe uses an ID based method while "B&N/eReader" style uses a 'password'). Both use Adobe content server and if manufacturers implement it any reader using the new Reader Mobile SDK can decide to allow both types of DRM. Also since "B&N Style" DRM is part of content server that method could be offered elsewhere as well and can be any kind of password, not just a CC number.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalp...noble_faq.html

Of course it would have been easier from a consumer standpoint for B&N to just use Adept/ID based DRM like everyone else was, but I'm sure doing it this way gave them some kind of deal where they aren't paying Adobe a fee for every DRM book download like other vendors who use Content Server do.

Originally Posted by simplyparticular

See this post here for pictures:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...98#post1120498

Those photos seem to greatly contradict yts06mgr who said both readers with the same font type and size will display the same number of wors per page. The 350 obviously displays fewer. igorsk was correct when he said:

Originally Posted by igorsk

They have the same pixel resolution, but I think Sony adjusts font size so that it's physically the same for both screens. That means that 350 will fit less words on the page for the same font size. Note that I did not verify this as I don't have both readers.

I convert ALL of my books to use my choice of font and to adjust the font size base to something that works for me. Too bad Sony won't add more font size and font typeface choices.