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Originally Posted by ripper3
Could you expand on it? Faithbw's reccomended PRS-350 and as I understand it's the same thing as PRS-650 but with smaller screen. I've seen a couple of videos and it seems that highlighting and notes are realized pretty good in it. Is this true?
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I'm not qualified to speak of the newer generation Sonys. I only know that there's a severe limit on the number of characters that the 600 will import on any given text quote.
For example, on page 25 of
59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman, I highlighted the following passage:
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People behave in highly predictable ways when they experience certain emotions and thoughts. When they are sad, they cry. When they are happy, they smile. When they agree, they nod their heads. So far, no surprises, but according to an area of research known as "proprioceptive psychology," the process also works in reverse. Get people to behave in a certain way and you cause them to feel certain emotions and have certain thoughts. The idea was initially controversial, but fortunately it was supported by a series of compelling experiments.
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Here's what the PSR-600 exported to a Rich Text File via the Sony Reader Library software:
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People behave in highly predictable ways when they experience certain emotions and thoughts. When th
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That, in my book, makes the PRS-600 an extremely poor choice for anyone who uses their reader for research. Whether the newer generation Sonys have overcome this limitation is a question to which I don't have the answer.