Tap any of those very large icons to use the various Reader functions. There are small hardware buttons for page forward, page back, home, font size change 5 font sizes and options content sensitive.
The Sony Reader lasted less than a year and is now discontinued. And there ends our story. The short-lived PRS will likely fade from our readers' minds and those completely new to the eBook reader experience won't worry about it at all. Gone are the sidelights whose additional screen layer killed contrast. And Sony managed to reduce glare while they were at it. The Touch Edition's features are excellent and should be captivating enough to tempt Sony Reader and owners to upgrade.
The Reader is available in black, red and silver and it's smaller than the Kindle 2 and the same size as the PRS It weighs Sony includes a neoprene slip case instead. It uses incredibly little power, so the reader can go 2 weeks on a charge. In fact, it only uses power to turn the page.
There is no backlight the screen technology is too opaque for that and that means you must read with decent ambient lighting or a book light, just as you would with a print book.
Sony is the only company currently offering a touch screen reader there are very expensive readers that use a Wacom digitizer and pen that haven't reached mass market status in the US.
That's why the Kindle models have keyboards: there's no other way to input text for searches and note-taking. The Kindles also have a 4-way controller to navigate the screen, and that gets the job done but it can be mind-numbingly tedious to move through the page line by line, word by word, especially on the 9.
Like the PRS, the touch screen interface is very intuitive and well done. Swipe your finger left or right across the screen to move forward or back a page. Swipe and hold to move through several pages quickly. Double-tap a word to look it up in the dictionary, double-tap the page to create or remove a bookmark. Miraculously, the screen doesn't get murky with fingerprints.
Like all Vizplex eInk displays, you will see a screen refresh when turning a page, but it's very short-lived and is less intrusive than the PRS's obvious refresh. Glare is there but minimal-- it's nothing like the PRS or a notebook monitor.
One could almost use the PRS to spot a crumb between one's teeth while the lacks that mirror-like quality. Words are clear and crisp and the touch screen layer does not create a parallax effect.
It's not quite as rich with contrast as the PRS and Kindle, but it's close enough. The reader displays 8 shades of gray, which is more important for graphics display than text. Amazon pioneered wireless in their Kindle readers and each has a Sprint EV-DO wireless modem inside so you can buy and download books and periodicals from Amazon. With the Sony Readers you'll use your desktop and the included USB cable to download and transfer books.
Sony's desktop application, now available for both Windows and the Mac, works much like iTunes: you'll use it to copy books to the device, sync notes and purchase books from Sony's reasonably large selection of titles if you wish.
The desktop software also handles getting Google books which you can download for free using the desktop software or you could do it manually via Google's site but why work so hard?
You can also read books using the desktop software on the PC and any annotations you've made on the Reader are transferred to the desktop.
PocketBooks do have a PDF reflow Originally Posted by smallhagrid. Are there any readers besides the specific JB version and the Foxit eslick which use the Foxit software for PDFs because it was reputed to have a wonderful reflow capability? I knew Foxit got out of this field, but thought there may have been others besides those I mentioned with Foxit's goodies on them.
Maybe that eDGe isn't looking so extreme now, eh?? Onyx also has reflow. PocketBook's reflow also now is able to reflow "most" of the pictures in a pdf. Everyone else loses all pictures. Tags foxit , pdf , reflow. All times are GMT The time now is PM. Mark Forums Read. User Name. Remember Me? Menus, Settings and Programs tend to load lightning quick and I was never truly delayed doing common tasks. There are a few major components that make this e-reader truly unique.
Using the wireless connections you can buy magazines, newspapers and eBooks directly via Sony. The store is laid out very well and is very clean. If you find a few books you are interested in, you can read reviews and then add them to your wishlist.
If you buy books via your PC or tablet, your purchases are automatically synced to your e-reader. This makes things a bit more simple. The one thing Sony does with their latest generation e-Readers is make borrowing eBooks from libraries as simple as possible. There is a dedicated Library app that allows you to borrow books directly from Overdrive.
All you need to get started is your library card and four digit pin code. You can then browse, borrow and read the books directly within the app. All other e-readers make you have to sync your device using Adobe Digital Editions or other complex procedures that often turn off your average user. The one factor I totally find mind boggling is the fact that Overdrive is not hyping this device to their libraries or users. Sony should really be hyping library borrowing to make itself distinctive in the marketplace.
When you setup both of these social networks you can send highlights, notes, annotations and everything else directly to your account. Facebook allows you to update your status to reflect a specific passage you might be enamored with. Evernote lets you send tons of your drawings, notes and bookkmarks into your account, but honestly, who even uses it? The main menus is very simplistic and shows you the last few books you have been reading and ones that are recently added.
There are three main components to the homescreen, your library, Sony Store, and Applications. Your apps, is where most of your options are, and there are plenty of settings to muck around with. There is advanced usage for the Sony Stylus that is bundled with the unit. Make sure you hang onto it, there is no slot within the e-reader to hold it, like the PRS did.
There are drawing and note taking features that allow you to save your drawings to the main memory and then export them to your PC or MicroSD. The stylus is not totally essential for your daily use.
You can download free and open sourced books directly from the internet and then copy them right to your device using Calibre or Windows Explorer. If you purchase books from other bookstores such as Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords and others, you will have to use Adobe Digital Editions.
When you read books in EPUB format you are presented with a myriad of options to customize your experience. You have around eleven different font sizes and they are updated dynamically in realtime.
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