Saturday, November 13, 2010

Electronic book readers - Sony PRS 700BC or Kindle?


E-book readers are a glimpse into the future. It will be not too long before we all read this format. While physical books, magazines and newspapers disappear overnight (and hopefully never) is not, it is believed that our grandchildren and great-grandson electronic readers will be used as your primary method of reading.

During e-book reader to for a few years been, it is only recently that the technology and the capabilities far enough advanced, to catch the publics avid eye.

There are currently two major developers of e-book reader.Sony PRS 700BC and Amazon Kindle 2.Beide are easy, and both are closely aligned in the price. The Knidle sells for $359 and Sony for $399.

Both are about the size of a regular paperback and weigh approx. 10 oz.Die Sony Sony as the Amazon product will hold approximately 350 average size books, while the Kindle is around 1500.The Sony provides additional memory, but in the form of external memory sticks. (8 GB for $89 and 16 GB for $120).

The Sony PRS 700BC electronic book reader should read a built-in LED light for the night while the Kindle offers a clip on light nicht.Kindle however for under $15.

The Kindle 2 has 230,000 titles currently available in your Kindle store.The Sony uses DRM format with thousands of titles to Verfügung.Aus of my research it seems that the electronic books available on the Kindle on average about $4, less than the same title of Sony's eStore available are.

The Kindle 2 e-book reader has 6 type sizes available during the Sony 5.Both readers have a 6 "display, and both use e-ink electronic paper display."

The Sony requires a computer to your books, download, while the Kindle uses a built-in wireless connection to download books from almost anywhere.There is no extra charge for the Kindle wireless connectivity and most of the books (depending on location) are downloaded in under a minute.

Both e-book readers have cable and wall units charged, although the wall charger an additional accessory for the Sony - it is the Kindle 2 is included in listed the Sony battery life is up to 7,500 continuous pages (or up to two weeks after reading) on a single charge .the Kindle States: "up to 4 days with wireless auf.Turn wireless off and read for up to 2 weeks ' on a single charge.

The Kindle has text-to-speech engine technology, which the reader and from one click Switch to.

Contain conversion software you can Adobe, MS Word BbeB and other text formats to Sony PRS 700BC electronic book reader lesen.Das Kindle offers e-Mail conversion of these for a small (0.10 per document) fee or free offers the same service using a free e-Mail connection

Both electronic readers offer, search and highlighting abilities. While the Kindle has a built-in keyboard, the Sony offers a "virtual" keyboard with their touch screen technology.

The Kindle offers free Wi-Fi on Wikipedia and it has is own in the dictionary and built.

These are the main features of the two e-book reader, and it is up to you which you decide you prefer.








My choice is the Kindle 2 it is cheaper, need not rely on a computer for book downloads, seems more available books and the somewhat cheaper cost of eBooks are the contributing factors to my choice of the Kindle 2.


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