E-book reader for travelers
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Sony PRS-505
If you enjoy reading books, you will certainly fall in love with Sony PRS-505 e-book reader. This slim and stylish looking device is a second generation of readers with 166 dpi resolution and popular E Link Corporation display format.
This e-book reader allows using not only MS Word and Adobe PDF files, but also MP3 music format and JPEG images. Device has its own standard 192 MB memory that is enough to store approximately 150 books. Music and huge PDF files lovers will certainly find memory card slot to be of a great help, as this Sony e-book reader can hold Memory Stick Pro Duo or SD Memory card types with capacity up to 8GB.
Device comes with all needed software allowing PC synchronization, upload and download features. Soft is easy to use, in most cases you can use drag and drop feature to put all media to your reader. Sony has its own digital bookshop that is much like famous iTunes where you can make fast and simple titles search and find the book you want to read.
Sony PRS-505 looks gorgeous. Reader has cutting-edge design and weights less then most paperbacks, so you can use it anywhere. Navigation is easy and intuitive making reader usage simple and exciting for anyone. However, device has no keyboard, so you can’t take notes or highlight important parts. (more…)