It never fails....I am always asked.

[GypsyWoman]

Hi All!

We travel a lot too. DH and I have our own readers. And inevitably at the airport one of us will get get asked. Then we go into it about not having to carry around all those books in your carry on.

It's perfect for travel. It's just plain perfect!

[ChipnDale]

Just as I wrote my previous post...what happends? I went to class yesterday and Lo and behold! another student had one too Exactly like mine at that

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by coase

Twice I was asked: Do you have to buy a new Reader every time you get new books?

Oh. My. Stars.

That's a new one for me.

I did have someone ask if it (my Sony Reader) was a "really big iPod".

Yeesh.

[JasonB]

Originally Posted by ChipnDale

Sony cannot display thier readers because they do not have bilingual instructions and buttons ect).

I don't understand this. The only button on the Sony that has text associated with it is "MENU". Everything is either a picture of a number - which is bilingual by nature.

That aside, the only other bit of English language text is "PORTABLE READER SYSTEM" engraved on the case itself.

I don't see either one of these being a handicap to somebody reading a French language electronic book.

Unless, perhaps, you meant the text of the menus in the software itself? Even so, I don't know if that would be a huge liability either. I, for one, would have no problem using a PRS if the menu language was all in French.

In France, I could see the English PRS being a hindrance to marketing, but I don't see it blocking marketing or usage in Montreal...

[doreenjoy]

I think the issue is that Canada is officially a bi-lingual country, so all instructions must be available in both English and French. But I could be wrong about that.

[notsure]

Originally Posted by doreenjoy

I think the issue is that Canada is officially a bi-lingual country, so all instructions must be available in both English and French. But I could be wrong about that.

We have two official languages but only the province of Quebec insists that everything MUST be available in French (signs, menus, etc...).

Anyone from Quebec could easily order a reader from another province if they didn't have any retailers able/willing to sell the PRS in province.

[ChipnDale]

Originally Posted by notsure

We have two official languages but only the province of Quebec insists that everything MUST be available in French (signs, menus, etc...).

Anyone from Quebec could easily order a reader from another province if they didn't have any retailers able/willing to sell the PRS in province.

Yep, that's what happened with mine...we had the montreal Sony Store order one for us but they weren't allowed to store or display them in-store.

The funny thing is that some things in montreal are french-only (eg: metro anouncements) but nothing is allowed to be english-only, I always wonder how tourists manage...

Edit: I'm not 100% sure on the details, the sales person told us this and his explaination was that it wasn't bilingual...but the 3 stores I went to didn't carry it and all of them cited the same reason.