Hi, my name is Patty and I love books!! I have been an avid reader my entire life. I love the art work of the covers, the heft of a hardback, I don't even crease the spine on my paperback books....I also hate to part with a book. I have boxes and boxes of books ranging from the Laura Ingalls Wilder books to romances and anthologies. As you can imagine, I have no more room in my home for anymore books.
My interest in e-readers was peaked around this time last year. I was checking out the iPods at
Target and noticed a new display. They had a Sony E-reader out that you could play with. So I went over to check it out.
Now, I have worked at jobs that required hours of staring at a computer and have suffered the vision loss associated with that, so I was highly sceptical. To my surprise, the e-reader was very easy to read and was not hard on my eyes.
The screen as a matte finish and the pages look very similar to an actual paper page. There is also the capability to increase the font size as well. You can download a ton of books on the reader and it has increased capacity via removeable memory cards.
After playing with it for a few minutes I decided it was something I'd like to have.....but, the price was prohibitive. Coming in at $300 I just couldn't justify spending that much....so I waited. Everytime I was in the store I would go over and caress it with a sigh.
Lucky for me I'm an impatient person and I purchased it three weeks later with my Target rewards card for 10% off. YIPPEE!!!
When I got home with it I tore it open and read the directions (yes, I read directions) and was disappointed to learn that it had to charge for a few hours. After an agonizing wait of 3 hours I fired it up.
It came downloaded with a few excerpts, but the Sony eBook site had lots of free books that were available. I picked some out and loaded it up!
As I started to read the first book the reader gave me a scare and locked up! Holy crap!! Did I just waste my money on something that's not going to work???? After a few minutes of waiting for it to reboot it came back to life.
I have since learned that it cannot be rushed.
The first few pages took some getting used to. The page turns have a bit of a delay, which I had to adjust to, but other than that it was fine. I really liked the fact that it was one small page to hold as I like to read laying down in bed, so this was much lighter than balancing a big hardback over my head.
As a whole I love my Sony Reader. I even upgraded to the lighted case and can read in a darkened room without any problems.
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