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05 January 2006

sony reader we wantss thisss. now. (but only if it can read pdf, anyway)

post by: dhruva at: 19:13 | 14 comments

But Sony? Won't it automatically install some awful DRM system to your eyes?

posted by wendell 05 January | 19:15

i know...but it's like print! That's a harsh trade-off.

posted by dhruva 05 January | 19:17

It might. I mistakenly bought a Sony pr0n DVD last year. I haven't been able to reproduce ever since.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 05 January | 19:19

Very neat tech. I bet it doesn't smell like a book, though.

posted by selfnoise 05 January | 19:19

Having just spent my evening trying unsuccessfully to get PDFs to display on my PDA, I wholeheartedly agree.

posted by Eideteker 05 January | 19:35

Oh my god. If it isn't totally DRM'd to hell and beyond, I am going to buy this for myself as some sort of congratulatory gift for some sort of invented occasion.

posted by cmonkey 05 January | 19:44

I bet it doesn't smell like a book, though.

Are you sure you WANT it to smell like a book?

posted by dhruva 05 January | 19:45

It does indeed look like really cool hardware!

But knowing Sony, it will be crippled with some of the most brain-dead, most user-hostile, most all-around-shit DRM this side of Pluto.

*sigh*

I would love to have one of these and "iTomes" for my Mac. If I could download ebooks for cheap and read them on a device like this, I'd be quite thrilled. Of course, it would absolutely have to accept my own PDFs and whatnot, and the DRM would have to be no worse than that of the iTunes store.

Which means I still be waiting.

posted by teece 05 January | 19:53

Here's an updated hands-on from Gizmodo. Native PDA support, supports RSS with images. Sony promises no restrictions on moving documents over.

posted by selfnoise 05 January | 19:56

oooh, fancy.

posted by SassHat 05 January | 19:58

how much tho?

and what happens if you roll over on it while sleeping?

posted by amberglow 05 January | 20:26

I miss reading books on my Palm pilot. It was a lot of fun to be able to just lay down, prop it up and have it autoscroll text for me while I read and read until I was just chock full.

I do want an e-Ink textreader, but not at 300-400+ bucks. It doesn't have to have a backlight. I can rig up an LED or two on a wired stalk, and I won't have to worry about the turning pages hitting the light like a lot of booklights have a problem with. (I currently use a headlamp for night reading.)

posted by loquacious 05 January | 20:59

Ooh, ooh, ooh!

posted by carter 05 January | 22:02

i think i'll wait for a roll-up (or foldaway) piece of plastic that will wirelessly feed whatever i want onto it whenever i want it.

posted by amberglow 05 January | 22:45

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