Sony PRS-700 Touchscreen Reader
Aug 25
2009
2009
www.T3.com – The Gadget Website Hands-on video with the new and improved Sony reader with touchscreen, double storage and a backlight
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August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
This eBook can be …
This eBook can be used as a normal PDA on which to take notes, write or draw as if on a normal sheet of paper? I do not care to use it to read books, but as “electronic agenda”? Thanks for your reply!
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
holds 300 books on …
holds 300 books on internal drive? that is 1200 less than the kindle
\and no daily newspapers?
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Colour screen will …
Colour screen will be next.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
What’s up with the …
What’s up with the emo hairdo?
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
For those getting …
For those getting so wound up about this, I did my degree in Literature where note taking was a must. However, I did this not in the book but paper with the page number. Only possible quotes would be underlined. I always hated defacing books. Uni library books couldn’t be marked without fear of a fine, so NOTETAKING was an academic art back then.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
In the long run, …
In the long run, obviously more functionalities will be added in to the e-reader, and making notes just one of them. I mean, the only reason that they didnot make this into a PDA is that the refreshing rate of it is too slow
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Wonderful product. …
Wonderful product. The future has arrived! Nice review, thanks! It helped me decide between the PRS-700 and the PRS-505. I decided on the 700 and it’s arriving today!!!
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I agree. If one …
I agree. If one buys an ereader to read grocery store trash novels, then annotations is usually not needed. But, some of us are hoping ereaders would evolve with better annotation techniques. I’m a sociologist/anthropologist and a lot of my journal articles can now be found in PDF format. It would be great if i could annotate these files.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I don’t agree. When …
I don’t agree. When I read a regular book, I always (ALWAYS) annotate it, mark it, underline, etc. Ever heard of marginalia? I do that too. What a lot of ereaders lack is a good way to annotate text.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
This capability is …
This capability is exactly that I’m looking for. My son will be reading many of the public domain books for home school, and now I can type instructions right into the text for him. For school – home or college, the ability to make notes is extremely valuable.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
In short, an …
In short, an E-reader with commenting possibilities is a 99% replacement of an actual book. Using a laptop for the same purpose is completely over the top. It’s like using a 16-wheel truck to drive to work.
Stop thinking in boxes. Following you way of thinking, a cellphone should just make phonecalls, no sms, no calendar, no reminders, no phonebook, no notes… nothing, just calling. It’s better to have the extra features and not using them if you don’t want to, than the other way around.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Well Duh, Of course …
Well Duh, Of course you can, but Word runs on a computer which weighs a ton compared to an E-reader, it’s much less enjoyable for reading, you can’t rotate the screen (reading documents in widescreen is not really efficient) and your battery will run flat in 3 to 4 hours average. And it’s a lot more durable/shockproof than a laptop. You can easily pop up on of these out of your bag on the train or something, a laptop requires table and the danger of somebody knocking it over and destroying it.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
You can make side …
You can make side notes in Word by using the comments feature.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I want to read my …
I want to read my book, not touch everything on the page.
this looks like it would make reading a MORE difficult task
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
You have to see …
You have to see further than just reading Moby Dick on an E-reader. When reading technical datasheets, courses, tutorials, etc… basically stuff that you are trying to learn, it is very handy if you could make sidenotes/comments or highlight passages. Right now, you can do this on PC but that doesn’t read very comfortable, and printing everything just to be able to make sidenotes is wasteful and inefficient as well. An E-reader that supports comments is the middleway.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
This is turning …
This is turning into a word processor. The beauty of an ereader is that it is dedicated to allow the reading of ebooks, not editing speeches!
And think of all the grimy marks on the screen from sweaty fingers.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
just a rip off of …
just a rip off of the iphone!