Sony Reader Digital Book (PRS-505)
Sony Reader Digital Book (PRS-505)

Sony Reader Digital Book (PRS-505)

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Sony

UPC:
027242723665

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Features:
  • displays Adobe® PDFs, plus TXT, RTF, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG and Microsoft® Word files
  • plays MP3 and AAC files (protected files not supported)
  • internal 192MB memory
  • memory slot holds an SD Memory Card (up to 2GB capacity) and Memory Stick® Duo media (up to 8GB capacity)
Product Description
The Reader Digital Book: An Innovative Reading Experience

The Reader Digital Book provides a new way to experience reading. It boasts an impressive 6-inch display1 utilizing breakthrough e Ink® technology that's almost paper-like, making it easy to read even in bright sunshine. In addition, the screen allows for high contrast and high resolution, with a near 180° viewing angle. The text can also be changed between three different font sizes.
Ultra Portable

A perfect travel companion, the Reader Digital Book offers a unique, on-the-go reading experience. With a compact and lightweight design, you can take it almost anywhere and read whenever you want. More compact than many paperbacks, it weighs just nine ounces7 (without cover), is only half an inch thin8 and holds up to 160 eBooks4. You can easily hold it in one hand, and with its rechargeable battery you can turn up to 7,500 continuous pages on a single charge2.
Hold 160 Books at a Time4

With a compact and lightweight design you can take the Reader Digital Book almost anywhere. And with plenty of internal memory9 and a slot for optional removable memory cards, you can take hundreds of titles, user-selected Web content or other supported documents for reading on the go5. It will hold approximately 160 averaged sized eBooks in internal memory4 and hundreds more with optional removable memory cards.

displays eBooks purchased from the CONNECT eBook online store * displays Adobe® PDFs, plus TXT, RTF, and Microsoft® Word files * plays MP3 and AAC files (protected files not supported) * internal 192MB memory * memory slot holds an SD Memory Card (up to 2GB capacity) and Memory Stick® Duo media (up to 8GB capacity) *
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Sony Reader Digital Book (PRS-505) Specs:
Product NameSony Reader Digital Book (PRS-505)
ManufacturerSony
Product Number MPNPRS505SC
Retail Price $299.99
EAN-130027242723665
UPC027242723665
Weight7 lbs.
Deal first added on:12-March-2008

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Latest 6 Reviews
Here is what people are saying about the Sony Reader Digital Book (PRS-505)
5 Star Rating  "Best buy in years"2009-11-15
- Reviewed By User: A107R51YTPWFFA
I just love it. It is a pleasure to read with this, there are so many free books around, no need to buy a new book for centuries.
The interface is a bit slow at times, but if you take the trouble to convert your books in the Sony .lrf format, everything works a treat.
Even PDFs can be resized to be read on this with 'calibre', free software, way to go. Well done Sony.
 
5 Star Rating  "Looooooove it!"2009-11-11
- Reviewed By User: A17Y0BDYD8ZNPK
Love Love love it! The sony book reader sits sylishly in its black cover inside my purse. I have had so many people comment on it. It fits perfectly in my hands, very easy to bookmark and turn the page. I love being able to read at night with the book light. I no longer need to have the reading lamp on next to my bed. I have had the book reader for 6 months and it has worked perfectly every time. It is very easy to download books to the reader also. I would highly recommend.
 
1 Star Rating  "Didn't last 10 months!!!!"2009-11-10
- Reviewed By User: A3DVYJCRUJCHVM
It worked well (though many books I wanted were not available) until it stopped working after only nine and a half months. It was supposed to be under warranty, but Sony would not honor the warranty. Don't buy this (or anything else by Sony). I would choose the Nook if you're thinking of the reader. It is much better and close to the same price point.
 
2 Star Rating  "Disappointing by Sony Standards"2009-10-26
- Reviewed By User: A1E4RVRLC7CCR7
I am going to return this product in favor of NOOK from Barnes and Noble or even KINDLE from Amazon.


Cons:

1. Not being able to view pictures in color would have been ok for the 19th century. Enough said.
2. The process of downloading books is arduous and complex. Why cant we directly download to the Reader from the internet.
3. Ability to erase or generally manipulate downloaded material is unnecessarily convoluted. If I want to erase something, then going into the utilities page should give me the icons for use with that specific requirement.
4. A quick start/use guide could have been helpful
5. This product does not do any justice to the "SONY" label

Pros:

1. Neat package
2. Compact
3. legible for the most part.
 
1 Star Rating  "Wonderful device - Dreadful title availability"2009-10-24
- Reviewed By User: A2LNWIU2CRLJDG
I purchased this device directly from Sony. First, the good news - the Sony eReader is physically attractive, finely crafted and is a delight to read. The only problem is a woefully inadequate selection of titles. It's as if the library was an afterthought for Sony. Adding insult to injury, what titles are available are typically 25-50% more expensive than the exact same title on Amazon or B&N.

Here are a couple of examples of the lack of thought put into the library:

o Wilbur Smith - a total of two titles from the entire Courtney/Ballantyne series, both late in the series
o Dale Brown - Dreamland series - two late installments in the series
o Somerset Maugham - Razors Edge - unavailable
o Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry is available, but not The Time Traveller's wife

I dislike having to write a negative review of such a fine piece of equipment, but I regret purchasing this device. I literally have found more ebooks to read at the NY Public Library website than in Sony's library. Disgraceful.
 
1 Star Rating  "Terrible software and terrible customer service is a bad mix."2009-10-14
- Reviewed By chrisbell86
About six weeks ago I decided to invest in an eBook reader. I read the reviews for numerous readers before finally narrowing it down to either the Sony PRS-505, or the Amazon Kindle. I went with the Sony PRS-505 because it supported PDF files without any additional charge, and because it was less expensive then the Kindle. The main selling point however, was that I could check out library eBooks with the Sony, which is something that the Amazon Kindle can't do. The only drawback I read about with the Sony was the limited number of books available for download, but with the ability to check out library eBooks, in the end it wouldn't matter. Or so I thought.

There are three problems with the Sony eReader. The first problem with the Sony eReader is that if something goes wrong, it ends up being very difficult to fix the issue without having to involve customer support. The second problem is that a lot of things go wrong with the Sony eReader. The third problem is that the Sony eReader customer support is truly awful.

The first time I hit an issue with the Sony eReader was about a month ago, and it's the last time I was ever able to successfully download books to the reader. This first failure had to do with the eReader not being able to connect to the eBook store. Sony support was the standard unhelpful approach, reboot, reinstall, wipe the reader, try again, escalate to the next tier of support repeat all previous steps one more time, etc.

I went online to read about this issue, and discovered a lot of disappointed eReader owners dealing with this issue and several others that they couldn't get past. From what I read the failures have to do with Sony's 3.0 version of their library - but this information is from the users. Sony appears to be stonewalling the owners and pretending there isn't any issue with the software. That or their customer support is so badly managed that they really are unaware of the problems that consumers have raised via Sony customer service. I use to think of Sony as one of the consumer electronics companies that I could purchase from based on brand name alone. That certainly has changed after the experience with their eReader.

I got past the first issue by following the advice of some of the online websites, but that involved making some fundamental changes to the O/S settings that I'm not all that happy about doing. However, after getting past the first issue I hit a second issue which was that every time I connected up the computer, the Sony website, and the eReader, the program would crash.

It finally dawned on me that since Kindle has dropped the price and doesn't charge for PDFs now, the only difference between Kindle and Sony eReader is that the eReader allows users to checkout library books, and the Kindle doesn't. Except, since my eReader doesn't work I can't download library books, or any books for that matter.

Basically, if the eReader had worked, it would have been an excellent purchase, but it doesn't, it's a useless piece of expensive junk. I put my Kindle order in this morning.




 
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