Review of Sony PRS 650

[RobW]

I have just re-read my review after four months and there are only a couple of things I would change. I am still using my Sony 650 and so while by no means a 'fan' I am still a regular user. I am definitely a convert to e-readers tho and it amuses me how, when I talk to friends about e-readers, they look terrified, as if I am going to take their paper books away from them. I do not think that paper books will be replaced by e-readers. They will simply exist alongside e-readers. TV and video tape did not put cinemas out of business and e-books will not put printers out of business.

I would want to withdraw my point about 'losing' the dictionary. It was on a different page and I just didnt press the 'next page' button. Very embarrasing.

Someone pointed out that there are 3 ways of listing the index and I was incorrect when I said there were only 2. The third way provides the title which is wrapped. I had missed this but I dont see why the designers could not have concatenated the title and author and wrapped the whole string. An e-bbok should do everything a paper book can do and more.

No one has commented on the lack of micro-justifcation which is a major flaw. I dont understand why it was not designed into the device. Perhaps there is some limitation on e-ink.

RobW