Sony (PRS-505SC) Silver Portable Digital E-Book Reader System w/ Case
From Sony
The Reader Digital Book holds about 160 eBooks or hundreds more with optional removable memory cards.
Its portable size makes it the perfect travel companion, allowing you to read a variety of books whenever and wherever you want. With thousands of eBook titles available from the CONNECT eBooks Store, you can choose to download new releases, classics and popular book titles as well as view other document formats such as Adobe PDF10, RTF, TXT, BBeB and Microsoft Word.
Its long battery life lasts up to 7,500 continuous page turns, and the amazing paper-like screen technology is easy on the eyes.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3174 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Sony
- Model: ASONPRS505SCK1
Features
- Sony 6" Digital E-Book Reader
- Sony Leather E-Book Reader Case
Hardware is great Software leaves a little to be desired 
I just recently purchased a Sony PRS-505, as a hardware platform it works well the resolution is great now I can read out in the sun and generaly it is just a very nice device, however the software is just plain bad, initialy upon getting this device I tried to use the software package that came with it, again it was the Rocket EBook all over again, everything about the software is about selling books, not supporting the user!
However there is a software package out there that provides very good support and actually produces good readable ebooks, maintains your ebook library and is 5 times faster at accessing the book than Sony's junk.
As well it works like a USB interface should, no reason to lock up the device when it is the software that should close access to the system.
The software to use is http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki a system put together called 'Calibre' It is free-open source (they ask for a donation) and it is everything that the Sony software should be, it is like most open source not well documented but easy and intuitive to use, it can automatically download book information from Amazon and Cover Images from another free access site. (Easy setups)
This software saved my 300 dollar investment and allows me the free use of my new toy with all of the content that I have (2000+ .lit books) etc, etc. and is capable of translating most ebook formats to the Sony unencrypted .lrf - BeBook format.
Now all they have to do is find a way of generating readable and viewable .lrf's from Adobe PDF's for the device and I will finally believe that the world of ebooks has come true.
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