Hot on the tracks of the Sony Touch Edition, the Sony Reader Daily Edition is ready to take the market away from the Amazon Kindle. With a name like “Daily Edition”, you can expect some newsreading abilities. But does Sony have other tricks in the bag that make it live up to its reputation as a potential Kindle killer?

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Features – Hardware and Software
 

With 2GB onboard memory – 2 and half times more than what the previous Sony ereader offered – the Sony Reader Daily Edition lets you carry up to a thousand books at a time. And with its dual memory expansion card slot, we are talking about a virtually limitless reading library. 
But in order to place toe to toe with its main rival, the Amazon Kindle, Sony equips its third installment with 3G capability. Reader users will be able to shop, purchase, or download books, magazines, and newspapers over the AT&T network. 
Cherry-picking some of the mistakes of Kindle, lack of touch pad for one, the Sony Daily Edition Reader is rolled out with touch sensitive screen. The object is to give readers a reading experience that is quite similar to reading a paper back: pages can be flipped with the swipe of a finger, written with notes on the margin, or highlighted sectionally with a stylus.
At 7 inches, the Sony Daily Edition Reader boasts of a bigger screen display than its predecessor. Users will find this size suitable for comfortable reading of broad sheet pages like magazines and newspapers. The Daily Edition has also improved contrast/resolution. With 16 grayscales – twice that of the Sony 700 –  the Daily Edition is now on par with the Kindle 2 in terms of clarity of images and crispness of text.
But what has really captured the imagination of the reading public – and what gives the Sony Daily Edition Reader an edge over its rivals –  is its library lending and finding features. Users will be able to borrow e-books from their local library for 14-29 days, depending on the library’s borrowing policies. No late fees to pay; the ebooks automatically expire at the end of the lending period. The library software is compatible with Mac and other PCs.

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The Bottom line!
 

If you are looking for a device that gives you freedom in accessing your content, you don’t have to wait any longer – the Sony Reader Daily Edition Reader will be available in stores this December for $399. Light, attractive-looking, wired, and fully-featured, what more can you ask from an e-reader? 
 

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Features

While Sony didn’t provide an upgrade to memory in this edition, with 512MB capable of storing up to 350 books, along with dual expansion slots for both SD and Memory Stick Duo memory cards, did they really need to?

What they did add was a stylus for writing freehand notes and annotations, making this Touch Edition an excellent choice for students, PDA users and business users. They’ve also included a built in dictionary that brings up definitions with just a double tap of the screen.

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As for software, Sony’s eBook library software, no long slim pickings with nearly 1 million offerings, is now compatible with both Windows and the Mac.

The Bottom Line

Sony has certainly made some necessary improvements over its previous touchscreen entry, and its $299 mid-price offering fills a void in the Sony lineup. For those who are looking for a sleek, easy to use touchscreen and can live without wireless capability, the Touch Edition is just the eReader for you.

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Features

With the reduced size of the Pocket Edition measuring just 6-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches, comes a reduced screen size as well, just five inches compared with the six inches that has been standard among eReaders. Fortunately, the font sizes are adjustable, so this doesn’t necessarily mean the print size will be smaller as well.

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While the size of the product has been reduced the memory capabilities remain impressive, with the Sony Pocket Edition offering 512MB storage, allowing it to hold up to 350 books. What it does lack is the expandable memory capability that its mid-priced big brother, the Sony Touch Edition, offers.

Sony’s online eBook store does now support both Windows and Mac, and the Pocket Edition also features what all Sony eReaders boast – the capability to read the ePub format, opening up a new range of possibilities for book purchases and free public domain offerings, something the Kindle is known for NOT offering. In fact, with the addition of thousands of free public domain offerings, the Sony eBook store now has nearly 1 million offerings, a marked improvement over its slim pickings of the past.

The Bottom Line

While the Pocket Edition doesn’t offer the bells and whistles of its more expensive counterparts, its low price tag and small size are certain to find plenty of takers for this spiffy entry-level Sony eReader.

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FEATURES – HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE

The Sony PRS-505 set the standard in eReaders with a huge leap in graphics, a high-resolution, high-contrast, electronic paper display that delivers a realistic print look rivaling traditional paper and using minimal battery power- a technology known as e-ink. For those looking for relief from the eyestrain of the LCD screens in their cell phones and other gadgets, this sooths tech-related headaches and make daylight screen glare and squinting a thing of the past. The high contrast and high resolution offer a reading experience that rivals that of a regular paper book.

With the capacity to store up to 160 typical eBooks, the Sony can become your own mobile library. Expansion slots for Memory Stick Duo or SD memory cards make the device’s library potential even greater. More advanced users will appreciate the new USB storage capability that allows them to use the device as a portable drive for document transfers, images and other files to the Reader.

Since Sony’s launch of the CONNECT eBooks store last year, the number of downloadable eBooks offered has expanded to more than 20,000 titles with new ones added weekly.

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