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If you’ve registered an interest with Sony, you should have already seen this, but if not, the news is that Sony have announced that from December 11th, their eBook Store will become a Reader™ Store (Not sure about that attempt to trademark ‘Reader’, by the way!) and they’re going to have their entire inventory of eBooks available in EPUB format!
 Sony Reader PRS-505 The Sony PRS-505 was the first Sony Reader released in the UK. While it’s nominally been superseded by the Sony Touch and Sony Pocket Editions, that doesn’t mean that it’s not worth considering, as the new Readers bracket it, rather than directly replace it! It’s got a 6″ (diagonal) eInk screen, rather than the 5″ screen of the Pocket, so is slightly larger to carry but easier to read – it doesn’t have the Touch’s features of dictionary lookup, search or annotations, but the lack of the touch-screen layer on the display means that many people find the Sony PRS-505 to (just) have the better screen for reading.
When looking for eBooks for your device, the first thing that you need to know is what format your device supports. There’s a description of the popular formats in the “Guide to eBook Formats” article, but the common choice will be between EPUB, supported by the majority of the more recent Readers, and MobiPocket, supported by SmartPhones, CyBooks and Iliad Readers. |
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