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BusinessWeek gives Sony Reader a 3.5/5 in second round
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One of the better non-geek evaluations of the device, I think... big on practicality, low of gee-whiz.
The comments about the Connect software reminded me of a Sony MP3 player I bought two years ago. It was a gorgeous bauble, easily the coolest MP3 player I've seen before or since, but the PC software and music transfer system was so much of a pain that I took the player back to the store the very next day, and bought an iAudio device instead. And I didn't realize there was no Mac version of the software... that's worse than onerous, it bites! Maybe Sony needs to think about partnering with a company that knows how to make user-friendly software. Apple, for instance... |
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Haven't Apple effectively admitted defeat on this front by switching to Intel processors and allowing modern Macs to boot Windows? |
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I am not sure the Ereader will hit it big with corporate "America" or "Europe" for that matter, until it can manage to process Letter / A4 pdf's, which is the standard pretty much for internal documents, memos, reports etc etc. Corporate world would expect, IMHO, decent viewing and easy navigation within large documents.
I would think also some encryption stuff would be needed to keep company docs private if the Ereader is stolen. The software would need to be better and integrate decent files structuring both internally and more so on memory cards. Until these are sorted I can't see big business buying into the Ereader. :-( AndiR |
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Agreed totally. It's not made as a "business tool", but as a home product for people to read fiction on. For that, it's an amazingly good tool. Perhaps there is a market for an A4 device for business and academic use - it would probably need to have a touch-sensitive screen to allow documents to be annotated. But that's a whole new product. I wouldn't want one for reading on (too big!) and that's not what the Reader's for. |
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Simple newspaper could be formatted in a much more flexible way than they are right now, and be available on all kind of e-ink devices. But don't expect more "formatting heavy" magazines anytime soon on anything else than A4 (color too ?). The "e-babel" is not only tricky because there's too many formats around, it's also linked to the physical size of these readers. |
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In one company I work with they saw my Reader and went out and got one for themselves. They are currently building their service manual to fit on the Reader so that the techs do not have to carry laptops. They also believe that there will be additional security for the manual as the internal files may not be copied easily.
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They're not concerned about moving through the dox easily, RWood? Or did you talk them through building comprehensive TOC's in BookDesigner?
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Yes, or with LaTex.
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TOCs are very easy to do in BD
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I found another "mainstream" review published this week with an overall positive opinion on the Reader:
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