This product would be killer with a search feature. I regularly carry hundreds of pages of paper and several books and manuals. If I could consolidate my books, manuals and papers onto a small device, that would be great. However, a search feature is absolutely necessary to locate information quickly in manuals that can reach over 500 pages. Oh well, hoping that the third version does the trick...
Yeah I glanced at the manual too once there was a link to sony's store. No search. This seems like a baffling thing to lack, imho. Even a tiny cramped keyboard or onscreen keyboard would be sufficient for this task. What's the purpose of an electronic tree if you can't grep it? ;)
Can you search text in a book? The whole idea behind the E-Reader is to emulate a book without the weight and size. This devise is not designed to be an internet browser, word search, etc. If you are looking for those attributes...go buy a palm pilot!
That's actually a pretty stupid excuse. It's like a plot hole... "it's like a book" makes sense until you step back and think about it. Why the hell would you overlook what's probably the most important advantage to electronic reference material? Even searching fiction is highly useful---many times I've wanted to pull quotes and I just couldn't find the page it was on.
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But can you search text?
A quick look at the manual suggests the search feature is missing. See the manual at: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=PRS505&LOC=3
This product would be killer with a search feature. I regularly carry hundreds of pages of paper and several books and manuals. If I could consolidate my books, manuals and papers onto a small device, that would be great. However, a search feature is absolutely necessary to locate information quickly in manuals that can reach over 500 pages. Oh well, hoping that the third version does the trick...
Yeah I glanced at the manual too once there was a link to sony's store. No search. This seems like a baffling thing to lack, imho. Even a tiny cramped keyboard or onscreen keyboard would be sufficient for this task. What's the purpose of an electronic tree if you can't grep it? ;)
Can you search text in a book? The whole idea behind the E-Reader is to emulate a book without the weight and size. This devise is not designed to be an internet browser, word search, etc. If you are looking for those attributes...go buy a palm pilot!
That's actually a pretty stupid excuse. It's like a plot hole... "it's like a book" makes sense until you step back and think about it. Why the hell would you overlook what's probably the most important advantage to electronic reference material? Even searching fiction is highly useful---many times I've wanted to pull quotes and I just couldn't find the page it was on.
Search is a must.