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Gizmodo hands on with the Sony Reader
![]() Sony's new 'Reader' is fantastic and we want one immediately. The price point is going to be painfully high, with guesstimates in between $300 and $400, but it's everything the Librié—Sony’s first-generation, Japan-only ePaper-based eBook reader (whew)—should have been. Not only is the display amazing (and amazingly readable), but Sony promised us that there would be no restriction on moving over your own documents to the Reader—the DRM schmutz has been greatly decreased. Not only will the Reader support PDF files natively, but Sony's PC syncing software will automatically convert .doc files with most formatting intact. eBooks will be an optional purchase through Sony’s Connect service. The article goes on claiming that the Sony Reader supports RSS with images. My humble question: how can it support RSS without connectivity? Related: Will Sony help the e-book market to grow?, Sony's new e-book reader officially announced |
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The windows software fetches your feeds and prepares them so you can then read them (offline) on the Sony Reader.
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That's what I thought. So it's meaningless for all RSS feeds that only display summaries and link to the full article. Unless, of course, their software is as complete as Sunrise or iSilo to work as full offline browsers.
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If Sony opens up their BBeB specs, I might get round to adding support for it in Sunrise XP.
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They promised the specs would be released no later than the Sony Reader launch.
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That's cool! If BBeB becomes an "open format", I don't actually care what formats the Sony Reader supports. As long as there is a way to transcode any content.
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"Not only will the Reader support PDF files natively, but Sony's PC syncing software will automatically convert .doc files with most formatting intact."
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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion makes a point that I've been making and strongly agree with:
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