New Firmware for Sony Reader
August 12, 2008 – 16:06 by Mikko Hämäläinen
Sony PRS-505 Reader
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Sony has released a new firmware revision for their PRS-505 Reader. The most notable features are support for Adobe Digital Editions and PDF text reflowing. The latter is most interesting for me, as I tend to keep lot of scientific publications on my reader and those are mostly in PDF format. Now that the Reader is able to nicely reflow the text, you can magnify the font to a more readable size and the reading experience is actually excellent.
If you still have not tried any of the electronic reading devices, I definitely urge you to do it. Once you realize that it is possible to carry around gigabytes of books in a single lightweight device, there is no turning back.
And what am I currently reading? The list is as follows:
The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind
Albert Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Several academic publications on quantum mechanics.
3 Responses to “New Firmware for Sony Reader”
Where did you buy the reader?
By samik on Aug 12, 2008
eBay, where else? :-) Cost me around 300 USD so given current exchange rate, it was quite cheap. Also, Sony’s Connect Bookstore is US only, but you can actually buy books by giving valid US state and ZIP-code although using Finnish credit card.
By Mikko Hämäläinen on Aug 12, 2008
Seems very interesting indeed. Or maybe it was just those books you were referring to.
By samik on Aug 12, 2008