SONY Reader Digital Book PRS-505 Ebook reader

SONY Reader Digital Book PRS-505 - This eBook reader from Sony is a highly stylish, high quality way to carry hundreds if not thousands of electronic books with you. The best part of this eBook r (...) See more See less

eader, apart from the range of features Sony has packed in, is the cutting edge, easy to read E Ink® screen.The 6 inch E Ink® screen uses completely different technology to a normal mobile phone or computer screen. These other devices have a screen that is constantly 'on', and always draining battery, where the E Ink® screen only uses battery when it changes its image. This gives this eBook reader a huge battery life of around 6800 page turns, or hundreds of books! The large display on this reader lets you read a large amount of text between page changes.The quality of the E Ink® display is also one of its main selling points. For a long time, people have preferred to read text printed on paper because it's easier on the eyes. E Ink® very closely replicates this experience unlike LCD technology used on phones or computer screens. You can view the text from any angle, and also unlike an LCD screen, its best viewed under natural light. You can read this eBook in the light of a coffee shop, or even in full sunlight, because the E Ink® behaves similarly to real ink. The lack of a backlight again reduces eye-strain.One great bonus of using an E Ink® screen as opposed to a printed page is you can reduce or enlarge the text to suit your reading style. This screen can also be turned horizontal or vertical at the touch of a button to suit the document you are reading.The eBook reader will read eBooks from a range of formats, including some DRM formats. Additionally it will read a range of computer formats such as DOC and PDF files. It will even display black and white pictures.The eBook reader is supplied with a CD-ROM containing 100 classic books in eBook format.The player even has a built in MP3 player so you can listen to music while you read without fumbling around with other devices. (Description excerpted from: Sainsbury's)