SONY has had a reader like this available in Japan for the last year or so. Was very tempted as the pages are really readable, nice, crisp high-res text. Don't know if this is an improved version or not but after playing with it for a while I noticed that the screen takes a while to refresh and it has problems with the previous page remaining as a latent image. Also, it seemed *very* underpowered CPU wise and the UI was oh, so SONY, clunky. So be sure to play with it before you buy...
Utterly true. This is the man who once recommended the use of Excel as a substitute for a paint program; just reduce the size of all cells in the spreadsheet to 1 pixel by 1 pixel and, voila, you have a paint program. And he got paid to write those words...
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SONY has had a reader like this available in Japan for the last year or so. Was very tempted as the pages are really readable, nice, crisp high-res text. Don't know if this is an improved version or not but after playing with it for a while I noticed that the screen takes a while to refresh and it has problems with the previous page remaining as a latent image. Also, it seemed *very* underpowered CPU wise and the UI was oh, so SONY, clunky. So be sure to play with it before you buy...
Utterly true. This is the man who once recommended the use of Excel as a substitute for a paint program; just reduce the size of all cells in the spreadsheet to 1 pixel by 1 pixel and, voila, you have a paint program. And he got paid to write those words...