Preorder the new Sony Touch reader (PRS-600) – get yours FIRST

The Sony Touch reader just announced is the new kid on the block in ebook readers. It features the great Sony 6inch eink screen, the superb Sony engineering and build quality, but the screen on this sony reader is a touch screen.

This means that not only do you select your books and turn the pages by touching the screen with your finger, but you can also use the provided stylus to mark and highlight text for upload to your PC or Mac.

This Sony Touch reader really is a new dimension in ereaders/ebook readers , available in two great colours, silver and black, and you can preorder yours now and get a dispatch date of Thursday 10th September (one week before other retailers) a full week before everybody else gets theirs.

Do you fancy a red ebook reader? Limited special offer now on.

Now I love my Sony ebook reader -  I wouldn’t be without it and take it everywhere with me. Coursework, novels, dictionaries – they’re all on there and available at the touch of a button. No more lugging round bags full of heavy tomes and textbooks for me! I’ve even got War and Peace on there, as it takes up hardly any room in ebook form and I might actually get round to reading it one day.

Well since I bought the Sony PRS 505, the price has dropped with competition from all the big retailers, but the red ereader had always been priced higher. And much as I loved the cool look of it, and thought that the red surround really set off the screen a treat, I wasn’t willing to pay a premium for the same ebook reader in a different colour. And here in the UK, supplies of the red ebook reader are strictly limited, which didn’t help.

But now, if you’re thinking that you really do want to stand out from the crowd with your own distinctive red ebook reader, and want the security of  the Sony ebook reader name – the PRS 5050 – well now you can get it for a limited time at the same price as the already great Silver Sony PRS 505 ebook reader. Yes, you read it first here.

It’s a limited special offer, and we don’t know when the price will go back up to the higher level, but if you act now, this is your chance to buy the red Sony PRS 505, king of ebook readers, for an the absurdly low price of £149.00 delivered. So follow our link and check it out.

Read in comfort with this great cheap ebook reader stand

The nice thing about a book is that you can pop it on a stand at just the right angle for your own reading pleasure and read away to your heart’s content without having to hold it. Well if you’re addicted to your ebook reader (and who isn’t??) and want to make long reading sessions that bit less tiring on the hands and arms, then this great cheap ebook reader stand might be just the job.

This little ebook reader stand is actually sold as a stand for notebook computers, but it’s none the worse for that. You can actually use it to help prevent injury to your wrists when doing a lot of typing on your netbook or notebook by angling the keyboard to make it more comfortable. But it’s as an ebook reader stand that it comes into its own for me.

Ideal for older people who don’t have the wrist and hand strength they once had, this ebook reader stand is also great for youngies like myself who like to read for hours on end on a comfortable recliner with my ebook reader on the little table next to me. Believe me, you won’t know the comfort till you’ve tried it.

For around a tenner – and that includes postage – you can’t go wrong with this brilliant little ebook reader stand.

Shootout for back to college reading – cheap ebook reader vs cheap netbook

Now we’ve all got a cheap netbook – or if we haven’t we’ll surely be getting one before school or college starts again in a few weeks time. Wow how the hols have flown by!

And a lot of students use their netbook for absolutely everything.

Netbook for watching vids or movies, netbook for listening to music, netbook for typing assignments and essays, and especially netbook for reading books and coursework. Most texts are available in ebook versions nowadays, and most students – either at school or uni – have their texts on their netbook in ebook form – not to mention the latest Harry Potter!

But the key thing about an eink screen as opposed to even the best TFT displays is that the eink screen has no backlight. And no backlight equals no eyestrain. It’s just a fact that you can’t read for as long on your netbook as you can on anebook reader. And it’s also a fact that students have to do an awful lot of reading.

So compared with even the  best netbook displays like that on the Samsung N110 netbook (a fabulous netbook for students) it’s just less strain on the eye.

An ebook reader is smaller than a netbook, so you can pop it in your pocket, and carry it about everywhere. And since electronic books (ebooks) are minute compared with MP3s, your ebook reader can hold hundreds of books (or thousands with the optional SD card).

Plug the ebook reader into a USB port on your netbook upload your coursebooks, dictionaries , and you’re away. And because it only uses power when actually doijng  something like turning pages rather than reading,  your ebook reader needs charging once a week or less rather than every few hours as with the netbook.

It’s simply a matter of the right tools for the job. Watch vids, listen to MP3s, surf the net and Skype with your netbook. But do your all your coursework and leisure reading on your ebook reader. I don’t know many students now who don’t adopt this eye-friendly approach.

And as we posted earlier, we’ve got the cheapest place on the net Sony’sebook reader.

Buy one now and, you’ll be well prepared  for  back to college or back to school.  Check it out below.

Cheapest prices for Sony PRS505 ebook reader

We check out the price of the Sony PRS505 ebook reader in the UK every day so you don’t have to. Click on the Red Button for today’s lowest price.

	£194.99		free delivery, 1 year guarantee, silver
	£198.90 + £7.80 delivery		1 year guarantee, silver
	£179.00		free delivery, 1 year guarantee, silver
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	£149.00		free delivery, 1year guarantee silver or red

Sony PRS505 ebook reader – silver

Students and leisure readers alike will love this stylish ebook reader with its great 6 inch e-ink screen and front-mounted controls.

You’ll love reading novels, textbooks or essays on your Sony pRS505 ebook reader and be able to carry about the whole term’s books in your pocket. Battery life is about 7,000 page turns, which means you’ll need to charge it every week or two. This is because the e-ink display doesn’t use any power to display your books, and the ebook reader only needs to call on the battery for page-turns and other physical operations.

Charging is by the supplied USB lead, which you can  connect to your PC, laptop or netbook or plug into a separate mains/USB charger which you can buy for a few pounds. Ebooks are loaded from the internet to your computer, and from there to the Sony ebook reader via USB, or by means of an optional SD which plugs into the edge of the reader.

Contemporary books can be purchased and downloaded online, and there is also a vast range of free classic books whose copyright has expired. The Sony PRS 505 comes complete with a number of free books already installed, so you can hit the ground running.

It’s great for novels, fiction and general books in text format, but the Sony has a PDF reflow feature which means that it makes a great reader for PDF books where pictures and graphics play a large part.

You can even set your own text size to suit yourself, so if your eyesight isn’t what it used to be, then the Sony could be the reader for you.

No wonder the Sony PRS 505 is the biggest selling ebook reader in the UK.

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Cheapest prices for Cybook Gen3 ebook reader

Cheapest prices for Bebook ebook reader

Bebook ebook reader

This black ebook reader features the same 6 inch eink screen of the Cybook Gen3 and the Sony PRS505.

Where it differs is in the surround and the operating controls. While the Cybook Gen3 has a minimalist look with very little in the way of visible buttons, and the Sony has a more functional set of front buttons, the Bebook ebook reader comes somewhere in the middle.

In size, it is slightly bigger than the other two to allow for the controls below the screen, but still a small and effective featherweight reader, with just the same high quality ebook reading experience you’d expect of the 6 inch eink diisplay.

Whether you want the Bebook, the Sony or the Cybook depends purely on aesthetics and which you like the look of. In use or carrying about, you wouldn’t notice any difference. You can add to the storage of course with an SD card, and battery life is similar for all.

Sure the firmware in each is slightly different, but all the main 6 inch ebook readers are great to use and have a mass of ebooks to download, either free for out of copyright works or purchased for current books. You’ll love it, whichever one you get, so don’t worry about your decision. Go with your heart.

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Try this mains USB charger for your ebook reader

Ebook readers charge their batteries by USB.

Now you’d normally do this by connecting your ebook reader to one of the USB ports your PC, but there are always times when we’re not near a PC and the battery on our ebook reader is fading.

Enter the mains USB charger.    For less than a tenner, this brilliant little charger plugs into the mains, so no computer needed, and connects to your ebook reader by means of your normal USB cable.

Now I know that your ebook reader battery lasts for ages between charges, but just pop this little charger in your bag or backpack when you go on holiday or on that business trip and you’ll never need to worry about how to recharge your reader again. I often find it’s easier to recharge my ebook battery by plugging this into the nearest electrical mains socket than to interrupt what I’m doing and connect to my PC.

And another benefit of the mains USB charger is that you can still use your reader while it’s charging. If you charge from your computer’s USB port, then as you know your reading has to come to a halt. But with the mains charger, just carry on reading as normal. And instead of 12 hours or so for a full charge, your reader usually gets fully tanked up in less than four hours.

Get one, you’ll wonder how you ever did without it.

And if the makers of ebook readers had any sense, they’d supply one of these great little battery chargers with every ebook.

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