The battery life is rated at 10, pages per charge, or about 2 weeks. Because of the touchscreen, the Sony PRS has a completely different interface than the PRS, with more menus, options, and on-screen features.
Add that to all the existing features of the Pocket Edition and it comes out to a pretty long list. The has all the features listed above, the main difference being the has a larger 6-inch display. And aside from the margin cut setting which seems to only work on certain books , there are no options for changing line height, margins, or other character adjusting features. For that you have to modify the book's CSS code and add extra fonts to the Reader.
Landscape mode: The annoying thing about reading in landscape mode is that it shows duplicate sentences on every other page in ebooks.
With most ereaders each new page consists of entirely new text, whereas the Sony PRS breaks a single page into two sections, making the middle half overlap on both pages. This makes it difficult to keep your place when turning pages. Page Settings: Some page settings reset when closing an ebook and then reopening it. For instance, you have to reset the margin cut feature each time you open a document. Another thing is that 2 and 3 column split is a nice zooming option but goes from top to bottom instead of left to right, so it's pretty much useless except on PDFs with 2 and 3 columns.
The text is darker and glare is no longer an issue. As usual with Sony's products, the build quality is solid with an aluminum front and back panel, making it one of the best looking ereaders. Other positives include Adobe EPUB support for ebooks from a wide variety of ebook stores as well as borrowing ebooks from libraries.
As most reviews will point out, the main drawback with the Sony PRS is the fact that it doesn't have any wireless connectivity and costs more than other wireless ereaders like the Kindle WiFi and Nook WiFi.
Leave it till next day hoping its a glitch, next day, the band has spread, rendering the device unusable. Bought another on eBay only to have the same problem appear after a light toss into a drawer! For reference, I have a Nook touch, three years running, used and abused, still works like a champ.
Gave it 2 stars because I preferred the screen of the PRS to the nook, plus it is more portable. Buy only if you are "extra" careful with your gadgets.
Verified purchase: Yes Condition: Pre-owned. The Reader Pocket Edition features a full 5" clear touch screen and a smart, lightweight design that's easy to slip into a purse or jacket pocket for convenient, on-the-go reading. The simple, easy-to-use touch screen allows you to turn pages with the swipe of a finger and enjoy fast and intuitive navigation of your favorite books! The Reader Pocket Edition uses high contrast E Ink Pearl technology on its anti-glare touch screen to deliver an amazing, paper-like display that's more like ink on paper and fully readable in direct sunlight!
I was so bummed that someone decided to keep it rather than turn it in. I went to the Sony website and this e-Reader was no longer available, and I didn't like the newer version because the case is plastic, so I headed to EBAY. It's comfortable to hold, I love that I just touch the screen lightly to turn the page, and it holds a charge well. This e-Reader fits nicely in one of the pockets in my purse. The only downside is that you have to buy the power adapter separately which I already had done for the o ne I lost so whoever found my first one will have to buy an adapter to charge it.
Oh, and there is a way to password protect it so no one can else can access it and I have passworded my new one! Read full review. Very light in hand, quite a large screen. Stylish, with good grip. Pleasant to the touch. In itself is small. That's our biggest gripe about the device, which we otherwise really liked. Some people aren't fans of smaller e-readers, but the PRS's size is appealing to those who want to carry around a very compact e-reader that easily slips into a coat pocket or a purse and barely weighs you down.
That said, if your eyesight isn't great, this probably isn't the e-reader for you. And while it does display PDF files and has zoom capabilities along with Word and text formats , we can't say the small screen is all that convenient for PDF viewing. But if compact is what you're after, compact is what this is--without being too small. With the Size button, you can choose among six font settings: extra-small, small, medium, large, extra-large, and extra-extra-large.
While the absolute sizes vary from title to title, a 5-inch screen diagonal doesn't give you a lot of real estate. In one case, the large font size yielded just 11 lines with about four words per line; in other cases, it was 15 to 17 lines. However, if you switch to the "medium" setting, you move up to about 24 lines of text with around 10 words per line, which is pretty good.
Note: You can manually set the screen to display vertically or horizontally, but we really didn't like the horizontal setting for reading books. To download e-books from the Sony store, you have to install the Sony desktop app on your Mac or Windows computer. You then "side-load" e-books you've purchased to the device via the USB port. Alternatively--and this is one of the nice things about the device--you can download EPUB books from other sites and transfer those books to the device by simply dragging and dropping them to the device icon when you're connected to the desktop app on your computer.
For example, we downloaded some free public-domain books from epubbooks. Also, this Sony reader allows you to check out EPUB books from your local library if it offers that service. The Nook also has this capability, but the Kindle currently does not.
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