Reply To: e-Readers

I have a Sony PRS505 (It's red! It's kinda nice lookin'!) and I love it. Since getting it (fall 2008) I've been reading more for leisure, both using it and reading paper books — it gives me more opportunities for reading as I can always keep it in my jacket pocket — and it has me back in the habit of reading, too.

I do use it a lot for reading manuscripts for my day job; I like being able to copy manuscripts directly onto it and read them without the ability to edit. I take notes as I read, instead. Less time fiddling, more big picture stuff.

It has not reduced the amount of books I buy; it's increased it. I've promised myself that until I polish off all the non-reference print books I bought in 2009, I won't upgrade to a Kindle (which wasn't available in Canada until recently), but I do want to upgrade to the Kindle for the whispernet downloads and the better store … although with recent events, we'll see how that goes.

I don't find the experience of reading on it to be much different from reading a printed book. The time it takes for the screen to refresh is pretty close to the time it takes to flip a page in a printed book, and it lies flat and always remembers the page I last read. ;-)

Aside from the selection and prices being not awesome on the Sony store, I consider it a total win.