From DigitalKoans today:
“Sony has announced that one million public domain books from Google are available for its current e-book readers.
In related news, there are rumors that two new Sony e-book readers may be released in August.
Read more about it at ‘Sony E-Readers Get Access to 1M Free Public Domain Books from Google‘ and ‘Sony to Offer 1 Million Google Books through Its Readers.’…”
From KINDLE REVIEW, etc. blog on the new Sony PRS-600
“…Sony Reader PRS 600 – Key Features
- TouchScreen – confirmed from manual.
- It mentions MP3 encoding technology which hints at a voice recording or voice memo function.
- Might be flexible – the board for touchscreen, eInk, and back pane all say ‘flexible’ in the manual. Could this be a flexible, unbreakable screen?
- Excellent Font Support – It comes with an in-built Font Fusion Engine from BitStream that supports Chinese, Korean, Japanese. It also claims to support ANY font. The default fonts look good (these are fonts on my PC, not on the Sony) -
Sony Reader PRS 600 Default Fonts
5. Extendible memory – The manual indicates SD Card and Memory Stick Duo are both supported.
6. Very compact – It’s 4.87″ by 6.87″ by .4 inches. That’s roughly 11 cm by 17.4 cm by .98 cm.
Sony Reader PRS-600 – Key Details
- 6 inch screen.
- Very light at 10.1 oz (286 g). Very thin at .4″.
- Sony Reader 600 will be available in Red, Black and Silver.
- Has a touchscreen. The panel below the screen might be touch sensitive buttons (which would be cool).
- Can be charged via AC adapter or USB.
- Sony Reader 600 has 380 Mb of storage capacity.
- It also has SD Card and Memory Stick Duo support.
- Battery Life of the Sony Reader 600 is 7,500 pages…”
You can look at the Sony Reader 300 manual in PDF or get the Sony 300 manual’sKindle compatible version…”
