| There has been a lot of buzz lately about the | | | | DOC, RTF and PDF formats. But then again |
| brand new e-book reader launched by Amazon. | | | | even the Sony Reader cannot read DOC formats |
| The most popular e-book reader around has | | | | directly. |
| been the one launched by Sony. | | | | |
| | | | E-ink technology |
| The price difference | | | | |
| | | | As far as the 6 inch LCD screen display goes |
| One of the main differences that really | | | | in the Kindle, the display uses the |
| stands out between the Sony E-book Reader and | | | | revolutionary e-ink technology using |
| Kindle is the vast price disparity. There's | | | | 'Vizplex' film on the surface. However, both |
| a whopping 100 dollar difference with the | | | | the Sony Reader and the Kindle have used the |
| Sony reader being priced at 300 USD and | | | | same technology. The plus side to this |
| Kindle having a price of 400 USD. While the | | | | technology is that 40% of received light |
| Sony reader promises a host of freebie | | | | gets deflected and uses reflected instead of |
| features like free viewing of PDF files, no | | | | transmitted light which makes both devices |
| internet connection needed, free access to | | | | easy on the eyes. |
| blogs as well as RSS feeds and even a memory | | | | |
| card included in the welcome kit, this reader | | | | Printability |
| from Sony sure has plenty of upsides to it. | | | | |
| However, Kindle isn't far behind what with | | | | There is no need to print any document |
| the capacity to contain more than 200 titles | | | | because Kindle offers portability in taking |
| and an SD card slot that is included with it. | | | | along all personal documents at anytime in |
| However, you do need to pay 1 dollar for | | | | any place, thereby eliminating the need for |
| every blog and RSS feed respectively which is | | | | printing. The 10 cent fee is applicable for |
| quite a bit expensive. | | | | wireless transfer of word documents. |
| | | | However, if users do not wish to shell out |
| The format | | | | this fee, free transfers can be leveraged. |
| | | | For this, the file or attachment needs to be |
| While the Sony Reader allows you to view PDF | | | | sent to where name stands for the ID used |
| files free of cost, the Kindle charges a 10 | | | | for your Kindle email address. So if the |
| cent fee for every PDF file that you would | | | | Kindle email ID is then attachments need to |
| sync into the device. Also Kindle tends to | | | | be sent to and then the file gets converted |
| read HTML, plain text formats and images | | | | and emailed to the associated Amazon |
| from the SD card but doesn't do too well with | | | | account. |