Sony eBook Reader

Sony’s Reader is the lat­est attempt to make books obso­lete. It doesn’t, but it’s the best attempt so far.

I like eBooks and I read them on my Palm all the time. But they’re not a replace­ment for books, just a con­ve­nient for­mat for when I’m unex­pect­edly in a sit­u­a­tion where I’ve noth­ing else to do. There’s some­thing about hold­ing a book in your hand that eBooks don’t pro­vide, regard­less of the form of the hard­ware you read them on. You can own thou­sands of eBooks in the space of your PC, but there’s noth­ing to hold, noth­ing to really look at. I don’t use the library much for that rea­son, I love the own­er­ship of books. No eBook will ever give me that feeling.

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