Sony announces their latest e-book reader, model PRS-700.
As compared to the preceding PRS-505, Sony’s made the PRS-700 a touch screen, thus eliminating the column of 10 buttons along the right side of the screen. Price goes up to about $400, making the PRS-700 $100 more expensive than the 505, but then you get touch-based page turns, text annotation via on-screen keyboard, search, highlighting and an LED light for dim conditions. Capacity doubles to about 350 digital books.
…still no wireless connectivity or web browsing à la Kindle.
Sony’s Third Generation Reader Digital Book Gives Readers a “feel” For Literature – Sony press release, Oct. 2 2008
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Highlighting is an important feature to me. I like to be able to go back and skim parts that really struck me as important.
Terrible name for a reader. Not a bad product at all, though.