From an Unlikely Source: A First Peek at the New Sony Reader Model? - Page 6

yvanleterrible · 09-13-2007, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I rather like the new look. My guess is that this is a pretty smart move on Sony's part making minor functional and cosmetic improvements. It gives me hope that they're in this for awhile and didn't just produce the PRS-500 as an experiment.

Wouldn't it be nice if the 500 was the study prototype tested on the most demanding public, mainly the US, and the resulting 505 be the worldwide final device?

astra · 09-13-2007, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Wouldn't it be nice if the 500 was the study prototype tested on the most demanding public, mainly the US, and the resulting 505 be the worldwide final device?

Dreams?

DMcCunney · 09-13-2007, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by jbenny

Actually, some people do need to carry around a lot of books. I am thinking technical documentation, not fiction. This supposes that you can get your technical documentation in a form that is readable on the Sony or other ebook device.

Which is in part what I do. I have all of the Linux HOW-TOs, a good bit of the Gnu docs and a chunk of other references in converted HTML format on my PDA, plus a chunk of Sun's documentation in PDFs.

All told, I probably have about 3,000 ebooks in different formats on my PDA, mostly in Plucker, but in eReader, MobiPocket, PDF, RTF, and text format as well. The collection takes about 1.5GB of a 2GB SD card. I can upgrade to a 4GB card when required. (Plucker docs are stored in a gzip compatible compressed format and decompressed as read, else I'd already have a 4GB card...)

Since there is no reason I can't carry my entire eBook library, I do. Why bother selecting and maintaining a current subset when you can take along all of it?

For me, high capacity to store ebooks on device is a feature.
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Dennis

heatherc · 08-06-2009, 09:03 PM

I'm just hoping the dimensions for the new PRS 300 and 600 will be roughly the same...I have a bunch of nice slipcovers for the factory default 505 cover, plus a handmade wooden box and a nice cover.

I may have over-accessorized my Reader.

DrMoze · 08-10-2009, 10:24 PM

The 600 has about the same dimensions as the 505. The 300 is about half an inch shorter in height and width.

[Edit] Holy threadbump, Batman!!!!!!

08-06-2009, 09:03 PM	#79
heatherc Enthusiast Posts: 42 Karma: 20 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Alberta Device: Sony PRS505	I'm just hoping the dimensions for the new PRS 300 and 600 will be roughly the same...I have a bunch of nice slipcovers for the factory default 505 cover, plus a handmade wooden box and a nice cover. I may have over-accessorized my Reader. Last edited by heatherc; 08-06-2009 at 09:09 PM.

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