Sony Digital Book Readers

While up to a few years ago these devices were at the stage of a beautiful dream, nowadays we find quite a competition on the emerging market for digital books. Being one of the most important companies in the field, Sony couldn’t have missed the opportunity of providing the world with their own range of digital book readers.

Just like any other ebook reader available today, the Sony Reader Touch Edition carries both pros and cons.

Oustanding features include: battery life of 2 weeks, 512 MB of flash memory that can be increased with memory card slots, abillity to support  Microsoft Word documents, the ePub standard, BeB format and Adobe’s PDF, compact size, extensive number of books available for download. The reader also accepts pictures in  BMP, GIF, PNG and JPG formats.

Drawbacks include: slow page turning, no support for Audible audio books, less than ideal controls.

An upgrade to Sony's original version of this device brought a faster refresh speed, more shades, stylish, elegant exterior, auto-syncing and USB mass storage support. A 6 inches touch display with 8 levels grayscale and 800x600 pixels resolution sounds pretty spot on. Weighing around 10 ounces you can see how this device also scores big on portability. Performance wise Sony's ebook reader doesn't disappoint.

The Sony Reader Touch Edition comes with a price tag of 9 which sounds like a reasonable price for the quality provided.