http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/ Engadget Comments for Sony Reader PRS-500 hands-on + Connect Reader screenshots http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/1. It's waaaaaaaaaaaay to expensive!
2. Software is like iTunes, but not as good.

When Apple brings out the fullscreen iPod, and starts offering books for download (which is only a matter of time with movies and pdf's now and all). They can leverage this whole thing by firstly selling the whole thing of the movie and music iPod, and then the whole monocrome scaling and advanced touchscreen reading inteface. Not to mention the make-all-your-mates-jealous-cool-factor. iTunes and apple will actually making reading cool! Imagine that!! and imagine the amount of mothers who will be well aware of this.

Now about that advanged UI for reading. A number of months ago Apple did to things: they ordered a major publishing house to get all thier books in digital form over to Apple a.s.a.p., and they also filed a patent for a touchscreen reading UI in which the user turns a page in the book by sliding their finger accross the screen /the page on the screen appears to turn as a read book would using a transition effect they now have in iPhoto slideshows called "page flip". How's that for coolness and ease-of-use. Wait though there's more. If the reader/user uses say three fingers when they are sliding their fingers accross the screen, then three pages turn. And if they go a page too far, they simply slide one finger the opposite way accross the screen. If they use two fingers, two page turn, and five fingers, five pages. Nothing more to add, but w ow]]>Sep 26th 2006 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
Favorite book, ever.]]>Sep 26th 2006 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 2:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
looking forward to the future where everything in paper becomes electronic, everything is so convenient then]]>Sep 26th 2006 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_ink )

"electronic ink, is a display technology designed to mimic the appearance of regular ink on paper. Unlike a conventional flat panel display, which uses a backlight to illuminate its pixels"]]>Sep 26th 2006 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
I suppose if they gave me one for free (subsidized by the cost of books), I'd gladly take one. . . but otherwise, there's no beating a good hardcover book.]]>Sep 26th 2006 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
actually the ghosting is a problem with e-ink, even after you totally refreshed the page the ghost effect is still present, nothing to do with response time.

the iliad (other e-ink device) tries to counteract this by displying a white page first]]>Sep 26th 2006 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
I could see something like "indiglow" on the watches being a nice nighttime option for the e-ink displays, not too bright, and wouldn't consume too much power.]]>Sep 26th 2006 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
kobiata.blogspot.com
myspace.com/kobiata]]>Sep 26th 2006 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
Also, I'm a sucker for new gadgets and have been itching to buy a larger ebook reader for ages, holding off for something lighter with good battery life and solid format support.]]>Sep 26th 2006 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
Other then size/weight, that's would be a big incentive for me to buy one of these. Otherwise, I'm not so sure...]]>Sep 26th 2006 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
Screen looks amazing.
Management program is the biggest iTunes ripoff i've ever seen.]]>Sep 26th 2006 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/As a software engineer - I like to keep a whole big pile of eBooks close by, that I can search and index... When I'm travelling (and I have a lot of flight time) - I would love something like this that would allow me to read through some of my programming tomes.
I wonder if there are any search facilities for searching through reference material - I'm also curious to see how it handles technical diagrams.

It would be extremely cool if it could search and index ALL of the documents on the memory stick (currently, I have about 4Gb of eBooks) - so that I could just call up the relevant text (Google Desktop is awesome for this).

It would also be extremely useful if it could handle flash diagrams (or at least animated diagrams) - that would give it a fantastic boost over paper books... shame the response time on eInk would prohibit that though.]]>Sep 26th 2006 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/The actual unit itself seems typical Sony; nice technology but terrible UI. Why so many buttons? And if you're going to have numbered index buttons, why are the numbers down the side on the screen but across the bottom on the unit?

The technology is great but I won't be interested until someone comes out with a unit that is far simpler and easier to use.
]]>Sep 26th 2006 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
here http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=7714
and here http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=7713

Alex

]]>Sep 26th 2006 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 27th 2006 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start;?CategoryName=pa_pdr&Dept=audio

Greets, Alex]]>Sep 26th 2006 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
I guess it's a start, but this thing will not sell every well IMHO.

waddo
http://www.waddo.net/]]>Sep 26th 2006 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/books that I have purchased over the past several years. NOT!!!]]>Sep 26th 2006 6:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/I have about 50 books in my psp and theyre all free. The only downside is that outdoor reading in the daytime is nigh in impossible. ]]>Sep 26th 2006 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
WTF.

geddouttehre!

that **thing** will not sell many at that price point. Shame as I am in the market for a decent ereader, but that ain't it]]>Sep 26th 2006 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
Jeff]]>Sep 26th 2006 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
"Adobe® PDF, JPEG, BBeB Book and plain text formats natively supported. HTML and other text formats require conversion using included software."

but the Engadget hands-on comments never seem to talk about this. What are the restrictions on the HTML? Does any of the Word formatting get stripped in the conversion? Inquiring minds would like to know. (I have in mind the books on Project Gutenberg, an increasing number of which are available in a lightly marked up HTML format. No javascript, just HTML and CSS, for the most part.)]]>Sep 26th 2006 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.eink.com/press/releases/pr86.html

Since e-ink doesnt use any power while displaying a page I see the reader outlasting the battery on anyones pda or even the older eReaders. anything with lcd's for that matter. I wonder if anyone sees the potential for one of these devices in education. Being able to carry all your books around in a device no bigger than a notebook. No more scoliosis for 6 year olds.]]>Sep 26th 2006 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
The link Brian posted indicates that color-capable screens will start being mass produced in the last part of this year. So maybe future versions of this reader will be color-capable or, more likely, an upgraded model. The problem is the text in cbr/cbz comics can be hard to read, when using the setting to fit to screen. I am sure they would be even harder to read on this 6 inch screen.]]>Sep 26th 2006 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.buymedge.com) has a neoprene case shown on their website and Gizmodo just previewed a suede case and night light. ]]>Sep 26th 2006 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/
Besides that though this looks like an excellent gadget for all the bookworms out there. I purchase at least one book a month, often more, and anything that'll save me money is a good thing. I wonder if they'll eventually expand to small textbooks for students or something. I'm eager to get my hands on the book store app and see what they have, and hopefully I'll get my hands on the reader if it's not too expensive.]]>Sep 27th 2006 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sony-reader-prs-500-hands-on-connect-reader-screenshots/Sep 26th 2006 11:31AM