Comments on: Sony Reader Daily Edition – 7″ PRS-900

By: switch11

switch11 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:43:39 +0000

could you add the link to one of the files and i’ll try it on my prs-600 and see if it works.
You should be trying to go with ePub or PDF format.
Also, what site are you downloading files from?

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:46:42 +0000

I received a prs-600 as a gift but despite following all the instructions I have never been able to get the thing to work. I have downloaded and installed the reader library in my computer, but have never been able to download an ebook to it. I have downloaded several free ebooks from the web but they do not go into the reader library. I have them in my documents file but every time I try to transfer them to the reader I get the little circle with a line through it saying NO. My only guess is that this thing works ONLY with books bought and downloaded from Sony’s own online store. Is that so?

Any suggestions would be appreciated before i toss the thing in the trash.

Thanks

By: felixa

felixa — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:13:43 +0000

As a proud owner of a PRS-505 and someone thinking very seriously about an upgrade to the 700, this genuinely breaks my heart. Glare on a device intended to accommodate the human eye for hours on end as it sweeps across the viewable field in an attempt to resolve tiny characters? Unreal. Reminds me, to a large extent, of a certain non-matte-screen-able laptop…

By: switch11

switch11 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:32:00 +0000

Janell, not sure of that. I’d heard that Sony were promising to deliver it by Christmas. What date did you order it on?

By: Janell

Janell — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:21:04 +0000

So when is Sony going to release the “900″ for sale? I purchased it for a Christmas gift, and as far as I can tell it still isn’t in the stores or being shipped from the factory.

By: red

red — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:54:05 +0000

“Doesn’t really compare with the Kindle 2 as $100 extra for the solitary benefit of the touchscreen is too much.”

Are you kidding? 100 dollars extra for: touch screen, bigger screen, landscape mode, pdf support, epub support….The touch screen alone is worth it.

sure some of those just come with being a Sony ereader. But for 100 dollars it a no brainer. I have boycotted Sony for the last decade after a few rip offs. I started looking at the Kindle, but it has far too many failures (no touch, no SD card, pay for file changes…not to mention when I first handled one I thought it was broken whenever I turned the page). I might actually have to break my boycott if Kindle 3 doesnt address any of Kindle 2s and Amazons SERIOUS problems.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:52:13 +0000

Why did they discontinue the 505 ((((, bastards!

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:11:59 +0000

I agree. PRS-505 is really handy tho it crashes sometimes. I have 505 in my purse all the time, but I am not gonna buy any more Sony ebook readers unless they changed the stupid “save all the unessacery reading record into one HUGE cache file” design.

By: karin

karin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:33:07 +0000

Let’s hope that the prs-900 has a better contrast than the prs-700. I’m really pissed off that i paid so much for that. the prs-505 was sooooo much better to read. how could Sony even have released the prs-700, knowing that the reading quality was so bad. I agree with Stefan, and hope that the Sony engineer got fired for putting in that touchscreen that made the reader unreadable.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:55 +0000

My God! I hope the screen is like that horrible PRS-600/700. I wonder which Sony engineer and exec got fired for putting in that touchscreen that made the reader unreadable.

C’mon Sony!! You made a great product, the PRS-505.

Your touchscreen layer that you put over the screen that made it cloudy and hazy is horrible!! OFF with it!!

Don’t do touch screen unless you got something way better!!