These posts are ahead later today or tonight in the TeleBlog, or maybe early tomorrow morning.
I will say there’s a reason why I haven’t jumped on the news about the new PRS-505 models replacing the current PRS-500. Boredom.
Yawn, yawn
Unless Sony has some new details to add—I’d hope that the new models would come with with the improved Vizplex displays, but things are still a bit vague–I can’t get that excited. On-board memory can hold 160 rather than 80 books. BFD in the era of cheap add-on cards. Plus, you’ve got silver and blue models and perhaps one other color, and menu keys in a different position. Oh, wow. And get this: still no Sony Reader software for the Mac, except from third parties. The price? Apparently a boring $299: yep, the current one.
Like Iraq: Incremental
It’s a little like Iraq. All this incremental stuff—leaked out after a store ad hit the Net ahead of time—is a letdown. Wait! I’m just gonna skip a full-fledged Sony item all together. Here are links to coverage from MobileRead and the Wowio blog. Actually I think that Dr. H’s post on Readng e-books on your Nintendo DS is more interest.
What would have made my heart pound over the Sony: A steep price drop or really improved ergonomics, beyond the possible Vizplex. The Sony Readers have nice touches, But we’re a long way, in thoughtfulness of design, from the original Rocket eBook. How long until there’s a nice, long lever we can press to turn the page? Not that Sony’s the only offender by omission.
“Sony Reader software for the Mac, except from third parties”
Does this mean you know of some? I’m on a Mac platform and haven’t found anything.
Hi, Paul. Some TeleRead tips and goodies from MobileRead might be helpful. Check out this program in particular (I haven’t used it, but a lot of others have tried it). – David
The price is a little on the expensive side for me but this is a cool product.
the lack of mac support is stopping me, too. i’m glad that Paul (above) asked about that “third party software” comment — i have been looking, and this was news to me, too!
Biblioskop for OSX (http://bookpac.com/download_en.php) still works with the reader though its a little stale and libprs500 works (link mentioned above).
The connect software works fine in Parallels and in VMWare…..or you can load non-DRM’ed books via memorycard.
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