01-14-2008, 10:30 AM | #91 |
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The Sony Reader Usage Will Grow
This is only the beginning. The PRS-505 Sony Reader is still very new. The new model (505) came out in October, a little over two months ago. I already put the Economist, the Wall Street Journal and the CNN articles, full text, on it with only 1 hour of invested time. It will take 30 to 40 minutes during my breakfast to keep it daily fresh. This was user supported effort, so imagine what 1 year will bring as the Kindle brings new competition, Sony's offerings continue to grow from their very weak state, user contribution continues to grow, and awareness of e-ink and offline reading expands.
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And I still think it is a problem. For player my parents bought recently you have to have a special remote control to make region free and they have to take the player somewhere to do it so it has not been done. So the few times per year they want to see a region 1 movie it is not possible. |
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I've been told that, in most U.S. stores, you can request a "region-free" version of almost and DVD player you want, and they will give it to you, no extra charge. But I have yet to test this information, and I confess I doubt it's that simple (I have little confidence in the average electronics store salesperson to either know or care about the difference, and wouldn't trust them to give me a region-free box just because I asked for it).
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Region free players are quite easy to get in the US & have been for years. It simply doesn't matter to most people.
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But it formatted nicely and reads fine on the reader. Seems I can increase the speed for the formatting if I format it on the PC, before putting it on the PRS-505, and Sony said SD cards read much faster than the internal memory, and faster than memory sticks. |
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Haven't tried the SD card though. I'm surprised the SD is faster than the internal memory, seems reverse to me. |
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I keep all documents I read on my device (a Palm OS PDA) live on an SD card. RAM is finite. I don't notice a huge lag as documents are opened. But internal memory should be a lot faster than a card, so Sony did something really strange, or gave you the wrong information. ______ Dennis |
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01-15-2008, 04:51 PM | #103 |
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Yep. If Sony really wants to give Amazon a run for the money, they'll do it for you. I wouldn't find 30-40min/day acceptable. Heck, I'm a woman that actually wears makeup and all that stuff and I don't spend that long total getting ready in the morning. If you give most people who are interested in periodical content a choice between spending 30-40 minutes a day (or learn to code, or pray some nice geek does it for you and you can understand how to use their software) or have it automatically waiting for you I don't think it's much of a stretch to assume most will go for the latter. Even if Sony does make a nice automated package for that, it'll still be a bit more effort than the Amazon solution but there are more offerings and it's free. That's competitive.
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01-15-2008, 06:44 PM | #104 |
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The challenge is over (IMHO)
My view is as follows on a number of the issues raised on this thread.
- I started being very negative about DRM but this became a non-issue for me because of the ability to convert DRMed .lit files with convertlit and then lit2lrf to Sony Reader files without DRM (once you have done it once it is an easy process that takes very little time) - I was negative on the range of books initially but I built up a library from public domain sources first, found a surprising range of .lit (Microsoft Reader) format files from a number of book stores. I have over 60 really good books to read (includes some substantial webpage text). The cost was much much cheaper than buying paperbacks and for favourites I had to have $5 was nothing compared to scanning the books (if you love an older book what is $5, if it is too much then do you really love it?) - can manage my book collection with libprs500 (free - on this forum) - can convert many formats to .lrf with book designer (free - on this forum) - having a shower (as mentioned above) while getting the news feeds seems no issue to me. - I admit to focusing initially on what I thought it could not do rather than what it could and in the end I am finding I can actually get (one way or another) most of what I want on the reader plus a lot more eg public domain, webpages. So I find my initial arguments invalidated completely - a whole world of ebook reading awaits - awesome! I would encourage anyone who likes the idea but has not taken the plunge to read this thread from the beginning and I urge you to have an open mind and you may end up like me: I bought a Sony 505! Thanks to all again. |
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shousa, I'm very glad you found the usefulness of the readers
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