Comments on: Sony PRS-505/SC Reader Digital Book Review

By: Judy Charlton

Judy Charlton — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:31:37 +0000

The best site I’ve found for ebooks is WH Smith. They are a reasonable price (insofar as all e books are ) are easy to buy and download and great choice. Much better than Waterstones and several other e book stores. Recommended

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:45:10 +0000

I’m about to buy one of these because my local public library now lends ebooks (for nothing) – making them the cheapest book store around.

By: Ketan

Ketan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:08:09 +0000

Hi,
This is the best gadget I must have brought till now.
I purchased it for Rs.14,800 .

It is so amazing, I read every day on this.

Thanks to sony for introducing such a nice product…

By: jacqueline leck

jacqueline leck — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:26:29 +0000

i bought this when it first came out and in the interim have been unable to download anything onto it. i have received negative response and help from both waterstones and sony, each of which try to blame Adobe. my advice, dont touch with a barge pole.

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:24:43 +0000

Has anybody found the best UK store(s) for popular fiction both in choice and price. I hope this is not Waterstones because I am less than impressed with their site and offreings.

By: Stuart Calder

Stuart Calder — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:10:48 +0000

The Sony is a good device, but lacks the iPod ‘cool’ factor, and the whole ebook thing is currently severely hampered by both cost and availability of ebooks.
I bought mine on impulse as a special offer from the Sony store at Heathrow Terminal 5 – £194, a saving of £30 off list.
It does the job, but as the owner of an iPod touch, I’m left thinking how Apple would have approached this. Probably as follows:
1. A touch screen.
2. Put your finger on the right hand end of the page and flick to the left to turn a page (and no flashing as the new page is drawn).
3. Use your finger to scroll rapidly through the list of 100+ titles.
4. Increase/decrease text size by moving two figures apart/together.
5. Easy navigation of music so you can adjust the sound without interrupting your reading.
6. Bigger screen area in relation to the overall size.

Don’t get me wrong – it works fine, but just feels a bit plodding in its design – nothing to make you smile at the sheer imagination and inventiveness of the creators.

And, as others have commented, I’ve so far been disappointed at both the availability and cost of ebooks. The cost of delivery is virtually zero – how can they not be cheaper than the tree-destroying paper alternative? in most cases you can get physical books much cheaper on Amazon (who don’t yet sell ebooks.)

So you won’t get your money back through savings on books. That leaves the benefit as carrying around 100+ books from a limited and rather costly selection in a single neat package. No wonder Sony has them on special offer.

By: Mr P Jones

Mr P Jones — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:36:34 +0000

Not only is the eBook store unvailable from the eBook library but the much advertised and talked about Google library

http://ebookstore.sony.com/google-ebooks/?in_merch=Homepage_Google_ePub_Rt_1

is only available in the USA and Canada as per usual

http://ebooks.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ebooks.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=124

I wonder why those of us in Europe these products!? We’re overcharged and supplied with inferior support items! For this alone I would hesitate to suggest it to anyone else.

By: Joe Donns

Joe Donns — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:38:50 +0000

not even word about multilingual support ... looks like somehow you can do it with Sony devices

By: MR A M SKERRITT

MR A M SKERRITT — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:45:17 +0000

Thankyou Sony the ebook is fantastic. But the price of books and the waterstones ebook site will put many people off . Also does anybody think the battery life is short ? Above it says the battery needs to be changed after 7500 page turns but it is a rechargable !!!!!!!!!

By: Ed Rolison

Ed Rolison — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:01:20 +0000

I have one, and it’s lovely.
However Waterstones eBook site is terrible, and Sony’s Ebook store is not accessible in the UK.
That’s a MAJOR problem in my opinion. The ebook pricing is also somewhat dramatically variable – you’ll pay anything from nothing at all, to more than hardback prices for the ebook. I don’t mind too much – I’m a person who’ll happily pay hardback prices just to _not_ have to carry a hefty hardback around – but am somewhat irked that I can’t then lend stuff I’ve read to friends.

By: j c

j c — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:16:00 +0000

i love the look and how simple my sony reader is. i got 100 free classics on cd with it so for the time being im fine.

my problem is that sometimes to buy and download a new title is seemingly more expensive than buying the actual book. the usual 12.99 or whatever the hardback version may be. i think waterstones need to sort something quickly.