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My portable ebook reader
I’m used to buy about 3 / 4 IT books a month, each one usually has more than 600 pages. As well as I like travelling and I would occupy all the space of a room just for my books, I need them in electronic format (an SD card could help me save some space here in Ireland, with so high house prices).
As well as I care about my eyes, I couldn’t read all the ebook on my laptop LCD monitor. I need some e-Ink enabled devices (electronic paper, not translucent). And I would like to read them while I’m in bed, in the bathroom or everywhere else.
After studying a lot the available devices, I decided to buy the Sony PRS-505 and I’ve to say that I’m so proud of it!
The screen refresh in about 1 secs, but it’s not a problem (and it’s like that on all e-Ink devices). I have no hurry usually when reading and I could waste 1 second while switching pages 
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Well, it is easy go get used to these devices. 7 inches display is enough if you want to read books without images and other kind of non-textual content, but probably it is not enough if you have to read magazine or IT books.
But no worries! Some really nice guys have developed very useful tools for converting content from almost everything (even web pages or rss feed) to the sony .lrf format. Some of these useful softwares services are:
- libprs500
- pdf2lrf
- web2book
- www.feedbooks.com (oh, absolutely love this!!!)
I’m reading at the moment a Microsoft certification exams book on my PRS, standard A4 pdf format converted to lrf (I got double of the pages, but at a larger and viewable size). And it look awesome!
The bookmark feature is very useful and I like so much the way I can store almost everything using an SD card and a MMC card too.
It’s very thin (0.8 mm) and very lightweight. I absolutely love it. It worth all the 299 euros I paid on eBay.
Probably I would buy another one for my girlfriend too.
