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  | Sony E-Reader PRS-505/SC Reader Digital Book (Silver)£189.99 Free DeliveryRRP: £199.99 | You save: £10.00 (5%) In stock | Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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- Technology: E Ink "Electronic Paper"
- Screen Size: Approx. 6" Measured Diagonally
- Resolution: Approx. 170 Pixels Per Inch
- Gray Scale: 8-Level Grey Scale
- Unsecured Text: BBeB Book, TXT, RTF, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word (Conversion to the Reader-requires Word installed on your PC)
- DRM Text: BBeB Book (Marlin)
- Unsecured Audio: MP3 and AAC
- Image: JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP
- Battery Type: Rechargeable Lithium-Ion
- Battery Life (Approx.): Up to 7,500 page turns
- Recharging Time: Approx. 4 Hours with USB charging from powered Computer or Approx. 2 Hours when using optional AC wall charger
- AC Power: Optional AC Charger requires 120 Volts 60Hz
- Weight (Approx.): 9oz. without soft cover
- Dimensions (Approx.): 6.9" x 4.8" x 0.3".6 (175 x 122 x 8mm)
- Weight (Approx.): 9oz.6 without soft cover
- Dimensions (Approx.): 6.9" x 4.8" x 0.3".6 (175 x 122 x 8mm)
- Accessories Supplied: Tan Soft Case / USB Cable / Quick Start Guide / CD-ROM
Experience the joy of reading a variety of your favorite books-all stored digitally in one compact device. The slimmer, redesigned Reader Digital Book lets you carry a stack of books in one hand.
The Reader Digital Book holds about 160 eBooks or hundreds more with optional removable memory cards. Its portable size makes it the perfect travel companion, allowing you to read a variety of books whenever and wherever you want. Its long battery life lasts up to 7,500 continuous page turns, and the amazing paper-like screen technology is easy on the eyes.
Ultra Portable
The Reader Digital Book offers a unique, on-the-go reading experience and is the perfect travel companion. With a compact and lightweight design, you can take it almost anywhere and read your books whenever and wherever you want. More compact than many paperbacks, it weighs about 9 ounces (without cover), is 1/3" thin, and holds up to 160 eBooks. You can easily hold it in one hand, and with its rechargeable battery, you can turn up to 7,500 continuous pages on a single charge.
Impressive, Paper-Like Display
The Reader Digital Book provides a new way to experience reading. It boasts an impressive 6-inch display, utilizing breakthrough E Ink technology that's almost paper-like, making it easy to read, even in bright sunshine. In addition, the screen allows for high contrast and high resolution, with a near 180º viewing angle. The text can also be magnified for sight-impaired readers.
Content Storage Capability
With a compact and lightweight design you can take the Reader Digital Book almost anywhere. And with plenty of internal memory, and a slot for optional removable memory cards, you can take hundreds of titles, user-selected Web content, or other supported documents for reading on the go. It will hold approximately 160 averaged sized eBooks in internal memory and hundreds more with optional removable memory cards.
Multiple eBook Titles Available
The Reader Digital Book allows you to search, browse, discover, and buy thousands of new releases, classics and popular eBook titles from the Integrated eBook Store and other participating websites. You can even go to other sites that have unsecured eBooks in file formats that the Reader supports. This translates into an incredible amount of content suitable for the Reader.
More Than eBooks
The Reader Digital Book isn't just about reading eBooks. Using the included eBook Library 2.0 PC Software, you can easily transfer Adobe PDF documents, Microsoft Word documents, BBeB Book, and other text file formats to the Reader, allowing you the flexibility to access and view multiple files at any time.
Average rating (8 reviews)
Exactly what I wanted
spursboy61 | 02/12/2008 | See all spursboy61's reviews (1) »
I bought 2 of these, (one each for me and my wife). Wherever we go, we take a bag of books, so I decided to get these so we can take all our books with us. So far I've downloaded 28 books and have only used a small amount of the available memory. It fits easily in my pocket, so I can take it wherever I go and can carry on reading, even if I'm only waiting for a short time.
I haven't noticed any problems with the battery, (I've read 4 and a half books up until now). I find that U.S. stores seem to carry a greater selection of downloadable books, but I'm sure that this will change as readers get more popular.
All in all, I'm glad I've bought them and would recommend the PRS-505 to anyone.
disappointing
readerisrubbish | 01/12/2008 | See all readerisrubbish's reviews (1) »
The Sony Reader has many good qualities, but ultimately it's very disappointing: very few ebooks are available for download (and those that are are the same price as 'real' books, so what's the point?); it's impossible to print from it or from its ebook library software so you can't generate a paper copy at all even though you own the copyright; and battery power, contrary to the claims, is used up very quickly indeed - leave it for more than a day and it goes completely flat, won't charge via wall outlet and will only charge via USB if you reset it. A vastly overrated and disappointing product - only buy if you have no bookshelves. Real books are still better.
Fantastic piece of kit
GoJoDo | 09/10/2008 | See all GoJoDo's reviews (5) »
This thing is amazing - the screen is nice and clear and easy to read.
The menu is very easy to use and plenty of setup options to adjust text size and orientation.
Tip - if you want to save money on a power supply get a Sony PSP one as its the same but a lot cheaper.
