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Sony Reader vs Amazon Kindle 

We say eBook, you think Kindle. Perhaps because of the online store’s giant market, the Kindle has been marketed directly to the eBook reader-base and online shoppers – an almost unfair advantage. The PRS505 Reader, however, holds its own being an eBook child of digital-book device founder Sony.  

While both readers display online books in 4-level grayscale (black and white), it’s the functionality, downloading and storing of the books that determines which of the two is better.  

Weighing in at a hefty 290 grams, the Kindle is wider and longer than the PRS-505 Reader at 19 cm by 13.5 cm. The lighter Sony Reader (250 g), may be smaller, however, has the same 15 cm reading or display surface as the Kindle, with its keyboard and page turning buttons, which, in light of the Sony’s touch screen (available on from PRS700 onwards), seems almost redundant.  

The Kindle’s battery lasts 30 hours which is incomparable to the 7,500 page turns of the Sony Reader. Sony’s takes longer to charge, which would be forgivable if it could connect as effortlessly as the Kindle to the WiFi network and store more than 80 books (as opposed to the 200 of Kindle).  

While the Kindle does also provide access to online publications, such newspapers, journals and blog feeds, the Reader supports more formats and costs a whopping $100 less.  

If you can forgive it for not storing every book you own (which would be a problem for those of us who read 200 books at once) and having to connect to the internet and download books from the Sony store via USB port, the Reader is cheaper option for similar functionality. The kindle though gets five gold stars for convenience of wireless download. 

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Date Added: 10 October 2009 08:00:14


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