| The Reader Digital Book provides a new way to | | | | documents10, Microsoft Word documents5, BBeB |
| experience reading. It boasts an impressive 6-inch | | | | Book, and other text file formats to the Reader, |
| display1 utilizing breakthrough e Ink® technology that's | | | | allowing you the flexibility to access and view multiple |
| almost paper-like, making it easy to read even in bright | | | | files at any time. |
| sunshine. In addition, the screen allows for high contrast | | | | With a compact and lightweight design you can take |
| and high resolution, with a near 180° viewing angle. | | | | the Reader Digital Book almost anywhere. And with |
| The text can also be changed between three different | | | | plenty of internal memory9 and a slot for optional |
| font sizes. | | | | removable memory cards, you can take hundreds of |
| A perfect travel companion, the Reader Digital Book | | | | titles, user-selected Web content or other supported |
| offers a unique, on-the-go reading experience. With a | | | | documents for reading on the go5. It will hold |
| compact and lightweight design, you can take it almost | | | | approximately 160 averaged sized eBooks in internal |
| anywhere and read whenever you want. More | | | | memory4 and hundreds more with optional removable |
| compact than many paperbacks, it weighs just nine | | | | memory cards. |
| ounces7 (without cover), is only half an inch thin8 and | | | | Sony launching Reader refresh next month? |
| holds up to 160 eBooks4. You can easily hold it in one | | | | If this press event invite is any indication, that's the way |
| hand, and with its rechargeable battery you can turn | | | | things are looking. The date is set for Ocober 2, and it |
| up to 7,500 continuous pages on a single charge2. | | | | all goes down at the Bookmark Lounge of the Library |
| The Reader Digital Book allows you to search, | | | | Hotel here in New York. |
| browse, discover, and buy thousands of new releases, | | | | If that's still too obscure for you, perhaps the "join Sony |
| classics and popular eBook titles from the Integrated | | | | Electronics as we open a new chapter on digital |
| eBook Store and other participating websites3. You | | | | reading" will tip you off. Yes, Sony did recently improve |
| can even go to other sites that have unsecured | | | | the Reader's software to work with more booksellers, |
| eBooks in file formats that the Reader supports5. This | | | | but the hardware of the PRS-505 itself is nearly a |
| translates into an incredible amount of content suitable | | | | year old, and Sony has found itself decidedly |
| for the Reader. | | | | out-Kindled. Our money's on a new Reader, or barring |
| The Reader Digital Book isn't just about reading | | | | that, some subtle, Sony-esque potshots at Amazon |
| eBooks. Using the included eBook Library 2.0 PC | | | | for having the nerve to show up late to the e-book |
| Software, you can easily transfer Adobe® PDF | | | | party and swipe all the glory. |