Sony reader touch edition

A lot of space, mp3 and very clear display. Touchscreen is fine, just make sure you press harder on it. Might be useful to protect from accidental touches. Cons: You can read the e-book only when you have good source of light. It is pain for the eyes to read in dark place. Will have to buy a special lamp for e-books. Overall Review: I like this e-book and newegg's service.

If you you think you are ready to buy e-book, newegg is the best place to get one. This generation of the Reader Touch uses a fancy new infrared-based touchscreen with no physical layer at all over the screen, so you don't have to use any pressure and there's nothing blocking your view of the display. Unlike the Kindle's proprietary TOPAZ format, Epub is an industry standard — basically, every store but that one uses this format, so you won't have any trouble buying books.

Many local libraries now also offer Epub-based checkouts which work perfectly with the Reader. The metal enclosure feels very solid and the buttons are sturdy and firm. I've seen Nooks and Kindles crack because people kept them in their bags; this doesn't seem likely to happen with the Reader. This is probably a deal-killer for many users, so be sure you think it through before you buy this product. You have to connect the Reader by USB to your computer to load books onto it.

I found the five font sizes good: I settled on using the middle one, but the largest one was big enough for a vision-impaired friend to read comfortably. Sony continues to be a class act in the digital book realm; and since it now supports ePub, it should rival Amazon in the breadth of available content. Unless having to connect to a computer to acquire content is a major concern for you, the Sony Reader Touch Edition is well worth considering.

Pros Excellent, intuitive user interface Full-featured reader with a good music player. Hurry only 1 left! Want more great deals? Sign up for our Daily Digest emails! They say there was no better library than the Library of Alexandria. Until today. They say the ancient Library at Alexandria had close to five hundred thousand scrolls. Pretty cool, right? Unless you consider that scrolls can only be so big before they start getting too heavy and too irritating. And then you start getting threes and fours and, well, you know how those ancient Greeks did like to prattle.

Sony made full use of the touch screen in designing the user interface, with the main menu now a proper graphical UI, with big chunky icons for the main tasks. One of the long standing gripes from many users was the lack of support for making annotations. Sony has now fulfilled this need along with adding note taking and drawing options, which can be done directly on any page.

Except for perhaps when drawing, all these tasks can be made with just your finger and the whole process is intuitive, though it did take me several attempts to work out how to access the notes feature - you might want to read the manual for this. Sony has improved the zooming options tremendously and now provide 5 levels of text zoom as well as full page zoom. The same text zooming is also utilised on PDF documents, but this will only work on documents with real text characters. One of the best features of the Touch Edition is the new built-in dictionary - actually there are two; Oxford British English and Oxford American English - which are a fantastic addition.

Usage is very easy; double-tapping a word shows a pop-up at the bottom of the screen with the definition and you can expand this out to show the full definition.