Sony eBook

How about reading the latest novel at night without disturbing your wife? It is possible nowadays, thanks to the Sony ebook. This might not have been possible a couple of years ago when the only option available was to read a .pdf file on the desktop. People might argue that they can do without the Sony ebook and that they can use their laptop for reading books in the .pdf format. They say so because they have never attempted it. This apart, the screen of the laptop is not designed for reading from all angles. This is not the case with the Sony ebook.

Check out the Sony ebook once and you’ll understand more about its capabilities. Apart from boasting a white background on which jet black characters are displayed, making the Sony ebook look more like a traditional ebook, this marvel also boasts of a backlight that focuses just on the screen with hardly any light escaping elsewhere. This is what makes the Sony ebook different from the laptops. Those who follow the latest trends in consumer electronics know very well that the ebook scenario was dominated for a long time by Kindle that is marketed by Amazon.

However the latest version of the Sony ebook has tilted the scales back in favor of the Japanese electronic giant. Whist the older versions of Sony ebook did not have wireless capabilities and one had to download books into their PC and then upload the same to the Sony ebook, the latest version of the same now ships with wireless with 3G connectivity being provided by AT&T. Sony has just blasted aside the competition with its new offering that boasts of a big 7” screen that hardly puts any strain on the eye.

Apart from this the Sony ebook now also boasts of a touch screen. Borrowing books from the local libraries is a simple task, thanks to the library finder feature. The user makes a substantial savings in cash when subscribing to their favorite magazines and newspapers in digital format plus they also help to save the ecology of the planet by not using paper. The Sony ebook looks just like a standard novel with a screen that has a capability to display 30-35 lines. Even though Sony has the credit of launching the first ebook, it lagged behind competitors like Kindle, due to the unavailability of wireless functions, but is now firmly back in the driver’s seat.

When the latest avatar of the Sony ebook was launched, it was believed by many that it would be an image of Kindle, but these doubts have been cleared by those who have seen and felt the Sony ebook. There are quite a number of new features in the Sony ebook with the primary being the capability of using it in both landscape and portrait mode. Even the storage capacity has been increased permitting the new Sony ebook to store approximately 1,000 ebooks. Additional data storage is a piece of cake using memory cards.