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List Price: $299.99
Our Price: Too low to display
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Sony
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Sony
Color: Silver
Display Size: 6
EAN: 0027242723665
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Feature: displays eBooks purchased from the CONNECT eBook online store
Is Autographed: 0
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Memory Slots Available: 1
Model: PRS505SC
Modem Description: None
Native Resolution: 6"
Publisher: Sony
Studio: Sony
System Memory Size: 192
System Memory Type: SDRAM
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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displays eBooks purchased from the CONNECT eBook online store
displays Adobe® PDFs, plus TXT, RTF, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG and Microsoft® Word files
plays MP3 and AAC files (protected files not supported)
internal 192MB memory
memory slot holds an SD Memory Card (up to 2GB capacity) and Memory Stick® Duo media (up to 8GB capacity)
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Editorial Reviews:
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displays eBooks purchased from the eBook Store from Sony® * displays Adobe® PDFs, plus TXT, RTF, and Microsoft® Word files * plays MP3 and AAC files (protected files not supported) * internal 192MB memory * memory slot holds an SD Memory Card (up to 2GB capacity) and Memory Stick® Duo media (up to 8GB capacity) *
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excelent product
Comment: I'm very happy with this product, i'm looking for this kind of device since a while, i tried, palmtops, psp (with hack ebookr), archos devices, netbooks, like asus eee, but none are really good.
Battery life is trully amazing, one week, reading a book, and battery status, remains full, image quality is very crisp, and yes, prs-505 don't have backlit, you need a source of light to read at night, exact like a REAL BOOK, its a joy can read my favorite books at the beach.
My only complain was about pdf files, but sony release a firware upgrade:
-Support for EPUB file format
-Support for Adobe® Digital Editions 1.5 or later and Adobe DRM-protected content
-Enables text within PDF eBooks to be "reflowed". This will enlarge the text and improve the readability of text-based PDF's
-Support for SDHC memory cards that have a capacity of more than 4 GB
-Delete eBooks directly on device
-General fixes to improve stability and performance
PDF Problem solved!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Great Product
Comment: I am very pleased with the Sony E-Reader. I haven't experienced any down side to it. I chose the Sony E-Reader over the Kindle due to the fact that our cell phone reception is spotty. I didn't want to trust that method to download books into a reader. Reviewer comments about the Sony Library being hard to use have some merit, but it's more about patience than it being a real problem. I haven't downloaded any PDF files, but had not anticipated doing so. I bought the reader strictly for books. I'm pleased to find so many books available, more every day, in the Sony format, and at places other than just Sony itself. One of the hardest things I've done is trying to pick my free 100 Classic books from Sony. Delivery of the reader was very quick, 5 days before anticipated. I have no regrets about this purchase.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Love it so far
Comment: Ok, now a not technologically savy just to warn you. But my overall opinon:
I like it. I have had the reader for about two weeks now and downloaded around 20 books. 6 free ones and 2 bundle packages. I like that I can buy 6 books bundled by author, limited selection mind you, for the price of 3 or four books. Also I have found the device very easy to read on your eyes and not strenous at all. It does enlarge text on the screen, although i do not use that option usually, as I am 22 and although need glasses read normal print in paperbacks fine. I read about 1/2 a book a day now that I have a full time job and find this device great for that purpose.
I have not tried to download PDFs on it, but pictures and music are fine as long as you like black and white and if you want a lot of music i suggest a memory card. The 8G is only about 60 dollars on amazon..my next wish list item. It theoretically downloads e pub files, but i am still working the kinks out of that application. Mostly because I am horrible at technology, not through any fault of the device.
Overall if you just want to download books and carry around a small library to read on your lunch break or after work/school its great. I enjoy how you can close the device and it will pick up on the page you left, no more having you search through 20 pages to find out where you were.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Almost there but no yet say another 10 years
Comment: The E-Book reader in my dreams kind of looks like am over sized IPhone
with multi touch screen no visible Interface except the virtual one
when you touch the screen (semi transparent).
Perfect size 8x11 ALL SCREEN with multi touch........
Sony is a bit far away from this concept, Ironically Apple is THERE
but they haven't got a brain to think, they only produce things
for non thinkers. It is a shame..
This Sony toy could be a dream to others so dont take my review seriously
I found the interface (KIND OF old looking feeling like 1970's) the size of the screen is not meant for serious book readers specially Technical books such as programmers, etc. Only 3 font sizes so it Small, Medium, Large not good....no scrolling so if you have a book with say 500 pages it might become 1500. It is horribly slow and the Desktop software looks
and works like 1988 technology........
I give 3 stars because it is the best of the worst so...
As it stands it should sell for say $99 not $300
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sony E-Reader - I'd like to love it...
Comment: For $300, I'd like to love this product but cannot. It has some serious deficiencies.
First, the unit will NOT CHARGE from the mini-USB connector unless it is connected directly to a computer. It apparently wants to be enumerated on the bus and allocated power. I tried to charge it by plugging it into the same charger that handles my phone and PDA and it not only didn't charge, it ran the battery down to ZERO. Not good, especially since it happened while I was traveling. Don't buy the Sony charger to solve this, buy a cheap USB to coax plug cable (in Germany, 3 euro).
Second, for PDFs, it displays the title and author tags from within the file. That would be ok except many sources of PDFS don't set these properly, especially if the PDF is output from Word. I have professionally generated PDF files that show up as "Microsoft Word" for the title, or sometimes nothing.
Third, and a problem because of the second problem, the software does not allow the user to enter either title or author data for a file. I can't change the PDF title from "Administration" to a more reasonable "CAP Reg 100-1", for example, and thus two out of the three CAP manuals I have are "Administration" (the other one is "Microsoft Word..."). I have some PDFs with valid titles, but so long that the relevant part is cut off. A whole collection of pdfs has the same title, as far as the reader is concerned. I can't change these easily. (pdftk and editing the uncompressed pdf is one way of fixing pdfs.)
While it does support pdfs, if your pdf is composed of images (as many scanned books seem to be) the reader is SLOW and the text is TINY.
Managing books is an issue. You can create "collections" to help you find things, but even when a book has been allocated to a collection it appears in the "books" category. That means a user with 1000 books (I'm up to 350 in just a short time) will have to wade through all 1000 titles if he wants a definitive answer to "have I loaded this book onto my reader yet?" And if you haven't allocated a book to a collection...
Overall, it's nice. I like it. I'd like to love it. Some pdfs look really nice, some look like crap. Some "magnified" pdfs work great. Some still look like crap. Many of the Sony Classic library, which I got 100 free books from, are available for free elsewhere, so don't jump to download all 100 from Sony. Text files are usually fine.
If you are looking for a reader just for electronic books bought from Sony and have lots of spare USB ports to plug it into, you'll love this. If you want it for pdfs from various sources, maybe not so much.
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