http://www.forevergeek.com/2007/10/second-gen_sony_reader_gets_thumbs-up/ Nerds are for Dorks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:04:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.forevergeek.com/2007/10/second-gen_sony_reader_gets_thumbs-up/#comment-34464 Tom Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:23:53 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/gadgets/second-gen_sony_reader_gets_thumbs-up.php#comment-34464 I bought one of these, after deciding only the week before they were released that the PRS-500 (the 1st gen) fell short of what I wanted by quite a bit. I've been converting fanfiction and books from project gutenburg since I bought it, and I have a couple dozen books on hand, wherever I go, in case things get dull. it weighs very little, has a great screen, and is reasonably fast at turning pages (generally done refreshing by the time I move my eyes back to the top of the page), though there's a sizeable delay (still less than a minute) when opening a large file off the SD card for the first time. The image quality is great in the 8 gray shades for displaying images, though I don't think I'll use it for that very much. I bought one of these, after deciding only the week before they were released that the PRS-500 (the 1st gen) fell short of what I wanted by quite a bit. I’ve been converting fanfiction and books from project gutenburg since I bought it, and I have a couple dozen books on hand, wherever I go, in case things get dull. it weighs very little, has a great screen, and is reasonably fast at turning pages (generally done refreshing by the time I move my eyes back to the top of the page), though there’s a sizeable delay (still less than a minute) when opening a large file off the SD card for the first time. The image quality is great in the 8 gray shades for displaying images, though I don’t think I’ll use it for that very much.

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