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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