Sony PRS-505 VS The Kindle

by: WanderingTechy October 12, 2009

The kindle has finally come to the UK and has already failed for me.
I was looking at getting a Kindle a long time ago and finally gave up waiting and went out and bought the Sony.  Boy am I relieved I did.
There are more than 4 reasons why I am glad I got the Sony [...]

eBooks sales explode

by: WanderingTechy September 11, 2009

Just looking around for more ebooks to download and found this (Another Quarter of Triple-Digit Growth for E-Books)
But on the downside I found Random Books the UK’s biggest Publisher has its own ebook site at http://rbooks.co.uk.  Thats not bad news until you see that they are charging £17.08 for the new Dan Brown book The [...]

Sony go with ePUB. Close to a standard now?

by: WanderingTechy September 11, 2009

I know this is old news but it is starting to get interesting now.  With google taking on the ePUB format, Barnes and Noble already using it and now Sony moving to it there are Rumours that Apple will go with it also.
What this means is that everyone that matters except Amazon will be using [...]

Sony PRS-505 eReader

by: WanderingTechy December 28, 2008

I bought one of these for the sole purpose of taking a number of books on holiday with me. I had no plans to use it as my main reading medium as I love books too much. However, the more I used it the more in love I have become with the technology. [...]