Sony Pocket E-Reader
Last week I bought myself an e-reader, I’d been thinking of getting one for some time but never gotten round to it. After a small fiasco with the first one being faulty, seem to have corrupt firmware but I don’t know, I finally got a replacement and it’s brilliant.
The main reason that I don’t read more is the hassle of having lots of books. They take up a lot of space and are heavy. Especially this year in Germany, I would have like to have brought a lot of my programming books with me but I couldn’t due to luggage weight restrictions so I was forced to only bring a couple of them. With an e-reader that isn’t a problem. I can have several hundred all in a pocket-sized device.
After using it for past week I have found that it is far better at novels rather than reference books. I had a few PDFs and while they open and work perfectly. It just isn’t as easy to search for what you want. It can be done, just a little awkward. If you stick to novels then it is brilliant, just open them up and read. It certainly filled the time on my flight back to Germany at the weekend.
The screen is very easy on the eyes, far easier to focus on for a long time than a LCD monitor and since it only uses power to turn the page then the battery lasts a very long time. A small amount of power is used to keep the device on standby but that is all. After a week of use and nearly 2 full books the metre hasn’t moved yet.
On the whole I think that it was a good buy and I’m happy with it. I will probably still be buying printed books for reference though.