I have a Sony E-Reader (I can't find a picture of my version, which is a year or so old). As a reading experience, it works pretty well: the screen is crisp and clear, and I find that it works especially well for lighter fiction. But I dislike the interface of my version, which is ergonomically nonsensical (the buttons are all in the wrong places). The closed platform drives me crazy: I can't add webpages or newspaper or magazine articles that I want to read later. Great technology, badly executed. And it will never replace paper for reading proposals and manuscripts, on which I like to comment liberally as a I read.
The one piece that really seemed like a great mistake, though, was how you download books: plug in a USB cable and go to the Sony store. Why should I have to be attached to a computer?
The latest version seems to fix at least some of these problems. Is Sony finally listening?
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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