Sony's Reader Dresses in Dooney & Bourke

Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:54PM EST

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Maybe your girlfriend already has all the red and pink gadgets I suggested in my Valentine's Day gift guide for her. Or maybe she isn't into red or pink gadgets at all, which makes your hunt for the perfect Valentine's Day even harder. 

Sony is hoping you take another look at their uber-expensive eBook Reader, which is now available through February 9 in a very appealing limited edition Valentine's Day package. The eReader limited edition gift set features a $25 gift card redeemable at Sony's CONNECT eBook store, and is wrapped up in a luxuriously textured leather Dooney & Bourke cover, complete with a cloth carry bag.  But does this special version of the eBook justify a $500 price tag?

It depends on whom you ask. Dory gave us the good and the bad scoop on the eReader back in September. She says the book holds 100 books, and you can read PDF or Word files, as well as RSS feeds. While lack of Wi-Fi, high price, and potential DRM issues are deal breakers for her.

I'm curious about the eReader, but like everyone else, I couldn't bring myself to spend $500 on one. Does anyone have one? Would you recommend it?

 Ready to Curl up with an eReader?

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  • 1 Posted by cpebach1 on Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:56AM EST Report Abuse

    I have the Sony reader and I could not do without it now. True, it was most inappropriately expensive, and in a world where countless ebooks are freely downloadable from the net, the "Connect" bookstore ... so agressively put forward by Sony with its stupidly expensive and proprietorially formatted books ... is doomed to failure. Sony seems never to learn from its past mistakes. But the ebook itself is excellent. I've put together a collection of some 50,000 ebooks drawn from the newsgroups, and from the priceless resource of the Gutenburg collection ... all available for free in .txt format. Other readers speak of the tactile pleasure of reading a "real" book and would mourn the loss of that, but I find the Sony device easier to read and far less bulky than the the average book. I am sure we will always have available to us "real" books in all their visual and tactile beauty, but ebook readers... in almost every sense ... are more convenient and more comfortable to use and carry. With more and more readers coming on to the market the price is sure to come down.

  • 3 Posted by coolarrie on Sun Jan 6, 2008 1:39AM EST Report Abuse

    Im still looking for a nice ereader....I already spent weeks on reviews and ads...but no clue...any body has any idea????

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