Sony E-Book Reader

Sony has come out with a new e-book reader that displays pages like a book. Using Sony's "E Ink" technology, the display looks more like paper than an LCD display. The display can be viewed from every angle and can be viewed in bright or dim lighting. The text can be magnified as well.

The built in memory can hold up to 80 books but you can plug in a Memory Stick or an SD card for more memory. It also MS Word documents, PDF, blogs, newsfeeds and JPEGs, so it can double as a newpaper as well. Not only that, it also plays MP3 and AAC audio files as well.

It comes with a dock to you computer and you can purchase ebooks via the Sony CONNECT site. The Sony Reader retails for US$349.99 not including the cost for ebooks.

The only drawback I see is if this is a closed system where you can only buy ebooks from Sony CONNECT. As what usually happens with Sony, a lot of their systems are proprietary that its either too expensive or not enough people use it due to its closed nature that few people use it. Therefore, support or sharing would be a problem.

I don't know if they have DRM built into this that you can't borrow books from someone or lend yours like a regular paperback.

But for those who loves to buy books and whose homes are starting to look like a library, this is a nice thing to have to reduce the space being take up by your collection.

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