Large display means many fewer page turns and it's big enough to display PDFs legibly...Text is sharp and clear with a bit more contrast than the Kindle...Not as portable as the 6" readers on the market...PDF support isn't complete: no TOC, embedded links sometimes...It’s a bit more contrasty and sharp than the Kindle 2, though it still doesn’t have quite the contrast of the...

Sony's Reader PRS-505 is an example of this...The Reader is smaller than the average paperback book at 122mm wide, 175mm tall and 7.6mm thick...A column of ten small buttons sits on the right edge of the screen...Buy Sony Reader PRS-505 securely online at a bargain price...

Stylish; silent; great screen...Slow; clunky interface; not Mac compatible...Electronic books have been talked about for years, but it's only recently that manufacturers have come up with technology that can come close to matching the feel and comfort of a real printed book...As you'd expect from Sony, the Reader is good-looking......

"Doesn't sound bad, but when you get a couple dozen books in the library, figuring out which ones have been synched and which ones haven't may be a challenge..."

"But its good to know its out there..."

"They all work, they all look great and most of them have some artwork (one I got off the website was for The Little Prince with original artwork in it..."

"which is good, the artwork is critical to the story)..."

"i use to read at list one book per week, latelly i did not because i am an old man and my eyes are not as good as some years before..."

"I don't really care much for the software that comes with the Reader, but I can just drag-and-drop the books into the right folder on the book and it's all good..."

"Overall, It's a good buy, well-worth the money (especially if it's tax-deductable for work like mine is)..."

"Outstanding battery life, easy on the eyes, crisp text AC Adapter is optional, I have been reading books on my pda for years..."

"handy to have a light-weight device to hold many books not waterproof (bad for the beach) & and books too expensive Most of the cost of a paper book goes to the expense of printing, binding, shipping, and warehousing the physical product itself..."

"For example, the bookstore..."