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Sony PRS-700 Reader Review: Blinding Glare Kills All Improvements

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Gilbert Tang Jr.
11/25/08

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As a proud owner of a PRS-505 and someone thinking very seriously about an upgrade to the 700, this genuinely breaks my heart.

Glare on a device intended to accommodate the human eye for hours on end as it sweeps across the viewable field in an attempt to resolve tiny characters? Unreal.

Reminds me, to a large extent, of a certain non-matte-screen-able laptop...
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Gilbert Tang Jr.
11/25/08

@Gilbert: By the way, here is a more comprehensive review that happens to not mention glare as even a slight factor: [krisabel.ctv.ca]
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ishook
11/24/08

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All I want to do is auto download the Red Eye/Tribune on the fly every morning. Can the Sony do that? I heard the Kindle can auto-download the latest newspapers. I think I'll wait the for the Next Gen kindle though. If if sucks, at least they'll drop the price of the original. E-ink should be cheap by now.
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weatherman
11/24/08

@ishook: there's no "on the fly" download for the Sony Readers, but there's a program called Calibre that can download any number of newspapers and RSS feeds for free. I download the NY Times and the Washington Post just about every morning, and Time Magazine and the Economist on a weekly basis. It's not perfect, but it works well enough that I've actually saved the cost of newspapers over the last year and then some.
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weatherman
11/24/08

@weatherman: to clarify; when I say download I mean on a PC which then syncs to the Reader in about 1 minute.
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Glare
11/24/08

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BLINDING ME?!!!!!!!
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FredicvsMaximvs
11/25/08

@Glare: ...with science!
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weatherman
11/24/08

In reply to Sony PRS-700 Reader Review: Blinding Glare Kills All Improvements
It's ironic because the main reason to use an ebook is for situations when there is a lot of direct light. I have the Sony Reader 500 and, while it's not as good as the 505 or the Kindle for readability, it is very good and much, much better than an LCD most of the time. I stare at an LCD all day for work and the e-ink is much easier on the eyes. It's also better for when I want to go out to the park, read on the train (which is where I do most of my news reading) or read in bed (where I do most of my fiction reading).
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Arthur Peterson
11/24/08

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This is proof that some days are just truly bad: Went out this morning and bought myself a new reader. Loved the display on the old one, but hated the controls, so I played around with the new one at the store for, oh about 30 seconds, and decided that the interface had improved vastly-- enough that I had them wrap it up... and out the door I went. Bought about 5 of sony's shit proprietary ebooks that will soon be pretty worthless to me (taking it back of course)-- while I waited for it to charge, then loaded them up, and finally prepared to settle into Wally Lamb's latest masterpiece in all the vivid glory of e ink. But something was wrong and I was not filled with anything approaching glory. And so insult to injury, I go online to do some googling but since my homepage is GIZ I had the internet's fastest ever answer - like suddenly the watershed moment had arrived, when questions will be served with the needed information as they are formed. But wait, it's nothing that cool at all. No, it turns out that was just stupid irony beating me down and calling me an idiot via the lead story. Not that I can argue.
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FredicvsMaximvs
11/25/08

@Arthur Peterson: Go back and exchange it for the PRS-505. Try it out for a bit. You'll get used to the controls, and the display is apparently a lot better.
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closhedbb
11/24/08

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"Though it must scare the crap out of the publishing biz, we will all one day carry ebook readers."

Isn't that statement assuming that we all carry books around right now?
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Churrito
11/25/08

@closhedbb: got my PRS 505 with me right now. Where's yours?
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FredicvsMaximvs
11/25/08

@Churrito: Me too! Right here in my messenger bag.

It will actually fit into the back pocket of my jeans, though that thought terrifies me. (Hearing the "crack" in my head as we speak. Jibblies!)
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EVEs_Mako
11/24/08

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Massive "Left 4 Dead" F4!L.
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The Lab
11/24/08

@EVEs_Mako: How does Left4Dead figure into this?
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EVEs_Mako
11/25/08

@The Lab: Because this product's flaw is so critical, I compare it to being surrounded by zombies, knocked to the ground, having the "Hunter" ripping your chest out - just before the "Tank" finds you in the narrow alley.
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ripfire
11/25/08

@EVEs_Mako: Enjoying the game aren't we?
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