I almost thought I was screwed when I started installing the Sony Connect software because halfway through the installation on Vista it starts rolling back. Kind of a bummer for me as I couldn't update software I couldn't install. Some digging however got me to this other support page in a totally different section of the Sony Site that has the download links for the Sony Reader Connect Software and Firmware. Here's my original 15 minute impressions in italics , along side my update impressions after living with and using the device.
Here's the saddest part. The Desktop Connect Reader software is so profoundly bad, so poorly designed, so truly evil that there are not word to full express the breadth and depths of its unspeakable lameness. If you're constantly traveling, always moving and like to bring books with you, possibly. I always want to have books with me, and often don't bring them because of space.
I ran out of books while in Tanzania recently after only two weeks. Other than that specific problem - that of space - and the cool factor, are books really that much of a hassle? Maybe large technical books and college textbooks, but I suspect that while University-level books are the right problem to solve, that industry would never give up on their lucrative dead-tree process without a hearty push.
Now, forgetting about this specific product for a second, let's talk about eInk. This screen must be wicked expensive because I don't understand why we don't see eInk in more devices. The simplified idea is that you've got a layer of tiny "beads" filled with liquid. In these beads are little color chips of pigment, white and black. The white chips are positively charged, the black ones, negative. They are inside these capsules that are sandwiched in between two charged transparent plates.
The plates are addressable such that each microcapsule can act as a "pixel" or "subpixel" in two passes for high resolution display. It's amazing. The best description of an eInk screen I can give without you actually seeing it is this:. Have you ever been to a furniture store where they have fake plastic computers and TVs on the desks? From far away you think it's real, but by the time you get close, it's clear that the fake image of Word or Excel is printed on the fake computer monitor.
The Sony Reader eInk screen is like that, it's so clear, it looks printed, static, fake. There's no backlight, it's super-high resolution you can barely see the pixels, and you REALLY have to want to see them and it's totally flat. Additionally, the viewing angle is virtually degrees.
It's damn-near paper. The only think that's "off" about it is the full second it takes to "turn" the page. Otherwise, eInk is brilliant. Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee.
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About Newsletter. It is the first e-reader ever to show a document as it was intended to be read in glorious A4. There is no need to employ pinching or zooming to find that sweet spot, like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite or Kobo Aura does. There are times when you are browsing the web or want to show off how pretty an image looks by making it full screen.
Due to its capacitive nature you can easily pinch and zoom using two fingers to make take up the entire screen. During this process the rendering engine kicks in, limiting the amount of e-ink refreshing that occurs.
This is where the 1GHZ processor really shines because its all done with the ease of use of doing the same thing on a smartphone or tablet. Workspaces is the bread and butter of this device and bears a resemblance of the way browser tabs work on Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer.
You can have many documents opened at once and jump between them by clicking on the tab. Lets say you are a lawyer working on a class action suit, likely you will have a pile of PDF documents that constantly need to be referenced. You can have 10 tabs opened at once for the interview phase and seamlessly jump between each one, taking notes and making highlights for key points. Workspaces can be saved and loaded, so you can jump between them with ease right from the menu.
Editing a PDF document allows you to write with the stylus anywhere you want. You can make notes, highlights or annotations and quickly go back to reference any changes you made on the fly. Once you made a bunch of changes you can save the PDF, preserving all of your augments, so you can export it to your e-Reader, smartphone, tablet or work PC.
When editing a PDF file, there are four different pen styles to select, from the very fine line to one that bears a resemblance to a marker. If you elect to take a note there are two main processes.
One allows you to use the touchscreen keyboard to type in changes and the other incorporates the stylus to hand draw. Find More Posts by DrZoidberg.
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