

Reader in its natural habitat

It can read the Da Vinci Code!

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Sony's eBook reader slated to launch on Halloween for $350










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RE: great
By PrinceGaz on 9/27/2006 9:18:23 AM , Rating: 2
According to the official site, you can view PDFs and RTFs on it (among other formats) but it does also mention in a footnote about using the supplied software to convert them to a proprietary format. So maybe the device only natively supports its own format and all other documents have to be converted to that format before transferring. I'm not entirely certain though. Since most books I've downloaded are in either PDF, RTF or Word format (and Word can be saved as RTF), an automatic conversion while transferring isn't really an issue.

If it were Memory Stick only then I'd not be interested, but in a welcome departure for Sony, it also has an SD card slot so you can use them instead. Given the price of SD cards compared with Memory Stick, I think most people will opt for SD.

The device looks quite promising to me; it's thinner and probably no heavier than the current paperback novel I'm reading. If that display is as high a resolution as the pictures suggest, it could be the first viable electronic alternative to a real book.

RE: great
By Gantrioch on 9/29/2006 2:26:10 AM , Rating: 2
PDFs, text files, etc. do NOT have to be converted to BBeB format. The Reader can read them natively.


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