I reluctantly stopped buying Sony devices because of this. And their telephone tech support the ereader division anyway is abysmal.
Originally Posted by vxf. SONY's update policy is: " ". Sony's support, especially by phone, is excellent. The Sony ereaders are arguably your best choice. Originally Posted by jamadams. Last edited by MattW; at PM. I concur with MattW. Once it is released, their firmware is pretty stable and finished. AND there seems to be a thriving community for hacking, if you're into that I agree Sony is less trouble than other ereaders.
I still use , even I have a few latest ereaders from other makers. For the piece of mind, Sony's own extend warranty is quite good. But Sony's price is high, you can buy two low end Kindle which is very good for the price of one Sony reader plus warranty. Originally Posted by david You can put me in the yay Sony camp too - never had any serious problems, when I have, I've had good responses, but most problems have been down to me and my TechDunce status If you must have a multifunction gadget, you don't want a dedicated reading experience.
And, although I swear by, and am never without my Swiss Army knives one in car -the big chap! I trust you see my point. Speaking of which, the knife blades, incidentally, are suitable for almost everything! My died on me 14 months after purchase. Enquired about repair but it was the mobo that was effectively going and repair was more than the price of new T1. I still buy Sony but I buy used and refurbed. They are all built to bust, even more now than ever, and Sony support is not a patch on Amazon.
Re: update of firmware, forget it. They get it to the point it works okay, then no more updates. However apart from listing the books on the eReader, there is no other function available for you. You cannot delete the ebooks from your eReader on this page. You can either delete it using the delete function in the device or remove it in the next sync.
As usual, remember to eject your eReader before disconnecting it from your computer. If you want to sync the whole library and the collections, click on the Reader tab and then click on the Sync button. You will be brought to this screen where you can select what you want to sync. This will return the book and automatically remove it from your library.
Any suggestions? You might want to try reformatting the ereader to see if it helps. The reformat option is under settings in the ereader, but be warned that this step will delete all the content in your ereader. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. The PRS, the 3rd generation eBook reader from Sony looked like the best yet: it added a touch screen, a more expedient UI thanks largely to that touch screen and side lighting for reading in dim or dark places. And the PRS does all those things admirably.
It's much less cumbersome to switch to a different book and you can change pages with a natural motion finger-swipe. Sony increased font sizes from 3 to 5 and sped up the screen refresh with each page turn the page blanks black for a second between page turns. Like the older models, the Reader is about the size of a trade novel but much thinner 0. What's the catch? The touch screen layer reduces contrast.
Digital readers like the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle use e-ink technology, a very low power, paper-like display that's non-glare and high contrast much like a book's pages. Touch isn't part of the e-ink technology, nor is backlighting, so we rarely see a reader offering these.
Sony, cutting-edge company that they are, found a way to add these two desirable features. Sony added a touch layer on top of the e-ink display and embedded LED side-lights into the frame that surrounds the display. But this comes at the expense of contrast and glare, and the Sony Reader PRS looks more like a grayscale notebook screen than an eBook reader.
The glare isn't nearly as bad as the average PDA or gloss notebook display-- it's on par with matte finish notebook displays. Clarity and contrast aren't bad at all under very good lighting lots of lights on, or daylight streaming in from a window , but in darker envirnoments like a living room at night with watts of light from a nearby floor lamp, it suffers.
Turning on the sidelights help here, at the expense of battery life. Note the much higher contrast on the The Sony Reader PRS has even higher contrast, and is the best display in terms of being book-like and easy on the eyes.
This pains our bookish hearts: we want the best looking most book-like display for hours of tireless reading, yet in every other way the Sony Reader PRS is a dream machine when it comes to ergonomics. Those who like to annotate books will be thrilled with the note-taking feature; simply highlight text with your finger or the included stylus and you can enter notes via an on-screen keyboard. And the touch screen works well: it's accurate and responsive. The main menu screen has an icon for notes, which takes you to a list of all notes.
Tapping on a note takes you to that spot in the book. The main menu is the poster child for simple and easy user interfaces; there are 4 very large finger-friendly icons to continue reading the current book, view the list of books in the device's library, view notes and view a list of any book collections on the reader. A row of smaller but still finger-friendly icons at the bottom take you to music like all Sony Readers, the is also a portable MP3 player , view photos 8 level grayscale and Settings.
Gone are the numbered buttons 0 through they're no longer needed since you can tap on any book or selection of any kind. Instead the simple bottom button row handles back, page turn forward or back, Home, search, zoom and Option context aware options. Since you can turn pages with a a finger-swipe right or left, the page turn buttons are small.
Surprisingly and happily, the screen doesn't get smudgy as do PDAs and touch screen phones. Also new for the is search before there way no way to enter a search term, hence this feaure didn't exist. New for the is book cover thumbnail view, for those who are visually-oriented.
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