Until now, digital readers are a great idea whose time has not come true. The good news: every new model is better, and Sony's latest Reader, the PRS-700, the company is the best yet. It has the dimensions of a thin paperback book and weighs a very portable 10 oz. Better still, it has a touch screen, you can flip pages with the slide of a finger. The new model also adds read LED lights on the sides of the 6-inch screen, making it easy to read in a darkened airplane cabin. Of course, that is sucking your battery faster, draining of the net after 8 hours (or 4 on the high setting).
The onboard memory can store about 350 books, and there are card slots for SD and Memory Stick Duo media. With the included eBook Library 2.5 PC software, it's easy to PDF documents and even music files to the Reader. Another handy feature: you can add text and footnotes. Down the road, there are plans for a wireless application (à la Amazon's kindle) to news of further enhancing and in general the 700 functionality. At this moment it is strictly black and white, though. When you press this as we could expect a color Reader, Sony representatives would only say that it is still "years" away. But the mono-colored PRS-700 will be available in November for $ 400.(dvice)
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Woo... This is expensive. I rather buy netbook. It can do much stuff than this. :P
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