Sony Reader PRS-300 Pocket Edition Review
Posted by admin in e-book reader Friday, 9 July 2010 04:32 25 Comments
An up-close look at the Sony PRS-300 and its features. For more info visit www.the-ebook-reader.com
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@jimeniuxxobo It depends on what’s most important to you feature-wise. Both have their pluses and minuses, which I’ve got listed over at The-eBook-Reader(dot)com. Twilight = nope.
@TheeBookReader in your personal opiinion what reader is best the kindle 2 or the sony psr 600? and do u have twilight on your ereaders?
@jimeniuxxobo Yes.
@TheeBookReader canu put music in the psr 600?
@jimeniuxxobo The PRS-300 is one of the few that doesn’t support audio files.
can i put music on thisÇ?
@NalaNosivad USB is limited by the slowest device connected. Still, 12kb/s is slow even by USB 1.1 standards. Try it on another computer and/or disconnect all other USB devices.
hi there, can anyone tell me whether this reader supports copyrighted materials only? Or does it read any downloaded ebook in pdf?
@lizcanoemily can you tell the peeps why? for those of us comparing to buy?
@dilyn222 would be helpful in this blog to say why you prefer those over this, rather than just knock the sony. Would love to hear what functions you thought superior in the Kindle or Nook. I’m comparing to buy and would be interested to hear.
I think the Sony Daily Edition may be worth the $150 extra cost.
The IPad turns out to be a terrible eBook reader due to its very heavy weight.
Its glass and metal and about 2x the weight of the Daily Edition.
@NalaNosivad Possibly has something to do with one of your ebooks throwing things off if you have some weird huge PFDs or something. Not sure; too many variables. Try running a search on Mobile Read in the Sony Reader forum for similar occurrences.
I have to ask.. using the USB connection to the reader’s internal memory, what’s the speed like for you? With my PRS-600, I got 12kb/s at the very most, and it wouldn’t even turn on with an SD or MemoryStick card in.
So, I took it back to the store, and got it replaced with the PRS-300. This one is even worse, being slow to the point of crashing Windows Explorer, due to it making my computer wait so long.
Any thoughts?
@adolson No on the battery, unless your mechanically inclined. PDF images show up unless they are reflowed. Wouldn’t recommend this small of a device for PDFs.
I am considering buying one of these. Is the battery user-replaceable? And my other question – if my PDF has an image, will it show it like the Sony format, or does it skip it, like the RTF? Thanks!
caliber
Looks like a decent enough ereader (sony should go totally opensource/platform on this one if you ask me). It’s slightly smaller than the size of a dvd box, I guess?
Nice review! Thank you very much for posting.
I am considering one of these when the price drops.
When I viewed the touch-edition in person, I did not like the screen glair.
Nope.
Good device, but is there any way to adjust screen brightness?
As far as I know. I’ve tried several other languages–Chinese, Russian, Greek–and they all worked fine.
can the language of the pdf be in different language such as hindi or bengali?
Not unless you put the bookmarks in using your ebook reader software. If they are put in with some other software then they won’t be saved in the reader software/device because it has no memory of them.
Bullzip freeware
There other freeware available to transfer the books on the reader.