Management and I were in Borders yesterday to pick up a book on Nagios when I quite literally stumbled into the Sony Reader display. I stood enraptured with the device for several minutes flipping through pages, marveling at its non-existent weight, drooling over how thin it is as well as the sturdy aluminum enclosure. Priced at $299 it is quite within reach and given how much wear and tear I gave my eBookman I could see this as a solid replacement for much of the paper I tote around with me. Also, with the libprs500 project looking so mature it eliminates many of the worries I might have had about easily re-formating and loading content.
Add it to my short list of gadgets I’m lusting for this holiday/birthday season.
Tags: e-ink, eBook, eBook Reader, Gadget, Lust, Sony Reader
Yeah, it’s supposed to be good and the battery life is supposed to be amazing (once a page is loaded, it consumes no battery). If I did a lot of travelling, I might be looking for something like this but as it stands, paper books are fine for me. Plus the archos has a built-in pdf reader (did you know that?).
I had read that it does PDFs, how’s the formating? Legible?
With no fixed office and my penchant for reading short stories this looks like a solid replacement for my non-functional EBM. Ideally, I’d reopen my Fictionwise account and read this while giving the baby her night bottle since it can be held in one hand thus making it easier on my shoulders and neck than my laptop.
Legibility is fine. Going from page to page can be slow (it loads one page at a time).