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Can you curl up with a good Sony Reader?(up front)
The Sony Reader, $350, is the latest attempt to make the paperless book a best seller. Roughly the size of a trade paperback, this 64MB device (9 ounces minus cover) can hold about 80 full-length books. To turn a page, you press a button, refreshing the screen. There's no search feature. The Reader accepts memory cards, providing virtually unlimited storage not only for books but also for your photos, music, and more. It currently works only with Windows PCs.
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The Reader is better than earlier e-books, but it could still use revision. The highlights:
Readability. With blackish text on a grayish background, the contrast is similar to that of an aging paperback. There's no built-in lighting, so we weren't able to read in a dim car. Still, text was readable from almost any angle.
You push a button to switch among three type sizes, though none is large enough for the visually impaired. Each "page" holds a lot less text than a book. Bob Woodward's "State of Denial," 576 pages, clocks in at 1,264 pages at the smallest type size. The screen takes about a second to display each new page.
Downloading. The Sony Reader comes loaded with a few classics. To buy new books, you load Sony Connect software onto your computer and go to www.ebooks.connect.com, which sells thousands of titles. The prices we checked at that site were close to those ...
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