Product Description

displays eBooks purchased from the CONNECT eBook online store * displays Adobe® PDFs, plus TXT, RTF, and Microsoft® Word files * plays MP3 and AAC files (protected files not supported) * internal 192MB memory * memory slot holds an SD Memory Card (up to 2GB capacity) and Memory Stick® Duo media (up to 8GB capacity) *

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #345 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Sony
• Model: PRS505SC
• Dimensions: .30" h x 6.90" w x 4.80" l, .56 pounds
• Memory: 0MB SDRAM
• Native resolution: 6"
• Display size: 6

Features

• displays eBooks purchased from the CONNECT eBook online store
• displays Adobe® PDFs, plus TXT, RTF, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG and Microsoft® Word files
• plays MP3 and AAC files (protected files not supported)
• internal 192MB memory
• memory slot holds an SD Memory Card (up to 2GB capacity) and Memory Stick® Duo media (up to 8GB capacity)

Customer Reviews

as good as it gets...
It is a better buy than the kindle because: 1) screen is better technology(8 grays instead of 4) and it is stylish, cute, inconspicuous (when closed, with its leather like cover).

Also: eink is the solution if you want to read electronic books, and carry your books collection around, like me.

LCD is VERY POOR, compared with the e-ink screen that this reader has.

There is an mp3 player, which works, and audio quality is very good (although there is no eq / audio control other than volume).

Pictures: You can see pictures, which are quite ok (but on b&w).


PROS:

You are offered 100 clasical books with your sony purchase, but also you can throw in almost any electronic document (either by converting it or by included native support).

There are TONS of free books in the net, from project guttemberg, universities, etc.

There are also lots of ebook stores around the globe.

You will not contribute with conventional paper industry, so less trees will be chopped down (an ecological angle for sure).

Your eyes will be thankful (contrast is better in an eink device than in a real book, if you want to read outside, with sunlight).

CONS:

a bit on the heavy side (it is an all metal construction) ... I imagined it to be lighter ... but it is like holding a 300-400 pages mass paperback book. You have to switch hands / positions while reading.

contrast is a bit funny. You might find the screen to be lighter or darker NOT necessarilly according to the subjective light in the room. It is an angle thing, I asume.

speed: it might be a bit slow formatting documents view (internal processor might not be the fastest in town)


Anyway, overall, I am quite impressed. I can read whenever I want, wherever I go ...

Extremely terrible software
I bought this item one month ago and love it so much.

Frankly speaking, Sony software really sucks! That why I just bypass Sony software and using card reader instead to manage my ebooks.

One the other hand, Prs-505 industrial design is fantastic!

Excellent... to a point
I received this a couple weeks ago from my husband for my birthday. I LOVE to read and am not always happy with having to fiddle around with an actual book; keeping it propped up while in bed or even worse, paperbacks that you spend more time trying to keep open than you do actually reading them. So I was thrilled to get this. As I said, its fantastic, to a certain point, that point being, it kind of sucks to have to use a book light with it. It glares off the screen if it's not positioned *just right* and there are just NO book lights out there anywhere that will light a whole page at once so that you don't have to mess around with them almost constantly while reading. (Well, the LightWedge is great for books but does NOT go well with the eReader; I tried it and it's more of a pain than anything.) That being said, I do understand why there is no back light. Someone mentioned it seeming to "lock up" while loading large files, and yes, mine has done that, with one particular book file. My solution was to just dump that file. The thing with TINY fonts on PDF files also stinks but I solved my problem with them by simply converting them to RTF and the font size adjusts just fine after that. It would be nice if they made some kind of "light bar" type book light for this thing that would cast light over the whole screen instead of having to use the "spot light" type that is just about all you can find otherwise. I don't know how long the battery will hold a charge as I am still using it on the first charge up and I read in it every day, some times longer than others but it held up through 6 hours reading on a trip last weekend and only dropped the power bar by one "notch". And it would be nice to be able to use it while it's plugged into the A/C thus saving the battery but it doesn't allow for that. Overall, it's GREAT, but minor little things kept me from giving it 5 stars. If you like to read, and especially if you LOVE the classics, I would suggest this eBook reader! Sony is offering free classics downloads from their library for a few more months. I am loaded up on Austen, Twain, and Dickens.