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10-30-2007, 08:08 PM | #62 |
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Night Reading?
Can the 505 be used in the dark? If not, what is the minimum amount of light required? Thanks.
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The 505 has no built in lighting, but it's readable with less light than the 500. How much is enough would depend a lot on your eyesight and preferences, but I agree that the booklights that JSWolf suggested would be a good starting place.
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Hey, they don't call it eink or digital paper for nothing!
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11-01-2007, 09:32 AM | #69 |
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I'll jump in with my impressions (I hope Bob doesn't mind). I'm a new Sony PRS user and just received my 505 a week ago. I do love it, but there are some annoyances:
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Well, I must say I’m disappointed by the need for an external light source since I prefer to read at night, in bed, without ambient lighting. For me, native lighting, however it’s executed, should be a CORE feature of an electronic product that attempts to replace a conventional book. In addition (and unfortunately), the external flex light Sony offers is dependent on coin style batteries as opposed to an on board power point.
For years, I’ve been struggling with every type of reading light/gizmo available and in one way or another they all have come up short. The idea of an ergonomically correct, electronic reader capable of point size changes and adequate back lighting is what I have been hoping for and probably won’t exist unless and until a company like Apple produces it. Thanks for the feedback. |
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I ended up getting 99 free books downloaded because of all the problems I had trying to download all the books mainly because they didn't have a shopping cart. I think I purchased a few of the same books a couple times by mistake. It was just a mess. I also ended up purchasing one book for $1.99 that I didn't mean to buy too. Oh man, what a mess and so very time consuming. |
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Nice first post PHugger!
I never had a problem finding the next page button, but that's a good observation. The feedback would help a lot (even if on the screen rather than the button click). I thought there was a shopping cart, but I could be wrong. The store is definitely a work in progress, especially for browsing. But if you know what books you are looking for, I've found it to be pretty convenient. |
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There is definitely a shopping cart when you're finding books (I was just now looking at it ) -- what is sorely lacking, however, and may be what PHugger is referring to is there isn't any way to download more than one book at a time, except possibly you may be able to download all the books you've just purchased, I don't remember for sure.
Some sort of "select books to download" function is a big ol' smelly hole in the ConnStore's feature set. |
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