Sony Reader Taking Hold?

An anonymous reader writes "Sony recently launched their latest attempt at an electronic book reader. The 'Sony Reader' is small and lightweight, about the size of a paperback book, and using E-Ink technology it only requires battery power when changing the page so light on power requirements. While it isn't their first attempt at an electronic book reader, critics are already predicting the Reader's success."

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Re:sure, they will sell a few....

[TubeSteak]

While your point may hold for mp3s, movies, etc. I'd have to say books are a different thing completely.

I know lots has already been said about the matter, so I'll just keep it simple.

Books are not the same as music or movies.

I'm sure you've all had the experience where you've gone into a test and you can't remember something, but you can picture the exact page & paragraph that piece of information is in.

When I read stuff on a monitor, it all tends to blur together.

Oh, and you can hold a book a lot closer to your face than a laptop.