Sony Reader Digital Book

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data for a file. I can't change the PDF title from "Administration" to a more reasonable "CAP Reg 100-1", for example, and thus two out of the three CAP manuals I have are "Administration" (the other one is "Microsoft Word..."). I have some PDFs with valid titles, but so long that the relevant part is cut off. A whole collection of pdfs has the same title, as far as the reader is concerned. I can't change these easily. (pdftk and editing the uncompressed pdf is one way of fixing pdfs.)

While it does support pdfs, if your pdf is composed of images (as many scanned books seem to be) the reader is SLOW and the text is TINY.

Managing books is an issue. You can create "collections" to help you find things, but even when a book has been allocated to a collection it appears in the "books" category. That means a user with 1000 books (I'm up to 350 in just a short time) will have to wade through all 1000 titles if he wants a definitive answer to "have I loaded this book onto my reader yet?" And if you haven't allocated a book to a collection...

Overall, it's nice. I like it. I'd like to love it. Some pdfs look really nice, some look like crap. Some "magnified" pdfs work great. Some still look like crap. Many of the Sony Classic library, which I got 100 free books from, are available for free elsewhere, so don't jump to download all 100 from Sony. Text files are usually fine.

If you are looking for a reader just for electronic books bought from Sony and have lots of spare USB ports to plug it into, you'll love this. If you want it for pdfs from various sources, maybe not so much.

Sony Reader Digital Book

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data for a file. I can't change the PDF title from "Administration" to a more reasonable "CAP Reg 100-1", for example, and thus two out of the three CAP manuals I have are "Administration" (the other one is "Microsoft Word..."). I have some PDFs with valid titles, but so long that the relevant part is cut off. A whole collection of pdfs has the same title, as far as the reader is concerned. I can't change these easily. (pdftk and editing the uncompressed pdf is one way of fixing pdfs.)



While it does support pdfs, if your pdf is composed of images (as many scanned books seem to be) the reader is SLOW and the text is TINY.



Managing books is an issue. You can create "collections" to help you find things, but even when a book has been allocated to a collection it appears in the "books" category. That means a user with 1000 books (I'm up to 350 in just a short time) will have to wade through all 1000 titles if he wants a definitive answer to "have I loaded this book onto my reader yet?" And if you haven't allocated a book to a collection...



Overall, it's nice. I like it. I'd like to love it. Some pdfs look really nice, some look like crap. Some "magnified" pdfs work great. Some still look like crap. Many of the Sony Classic library, which I got 100 free books from, are available for free elsewhere, so don't jump to download all 100 from Sony. Text files are usually fine.



If you are looking for a reader just for electronic books bought from Sony and have lots of spare USB ports to plug it into, you'll love this. If you want it for pdfs from various sources, maybe not so much.

Sony Reader Digital Book

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unlimited where I an download from thanks to its Adobe support. The Kindle does have attractive book prices, usually no more than $9.99, but thanks to DRM I am locked to only buying from Amazon. I can even transfer my PDF's, like IT White papers into the Sony with out having to e-mail anything, simply by transferring it over as if it were a flash drive. The e-reader takes about a second or two to turn pages, but no longer than it would take to turn an actual book page, so I don't know why some complain that it's slow. I am really happy with the Sony Reader so far, but I do recommend that if you don't need one right away, wait 2-4 months for the new Kindle to come out to see what it does. ...hopefully they'll make it easier on the eyes, and open to any store.