My Digital eReader!

After waiting all day yesterday my eReader finally arrived! I was awake at 8am and every time a truck drove by I lifted my head to see if it was coming into the driveway. Its harvesting season here in MN so plenty of trucks drove by. Regular farm trucks pulling bobcats, hay bales, and 4 wheelers went by all day. I saw the Schwan's man drive by twice, a moving truck and a tractor also drove by. Well, I was tired by 3pm, since I decided to go to bed the night before at 2am, so I decided to go and take a nap. And sure as shit, the second I dozed off, the dogs went crazy and I heard a knock on the door. And there it was!! :D I signed my name and took my box! Later I looked online at the FedEx tracking to see if it said delivered...just to see. And yeap it was there signed by S. Vivar. <3 I have not changed my name, but I like how everyone here assumes that my last name is Vivar.

I had done a lot of research when I started wanting an ebook reader. I looked at the Amazon Kindle 2 and up to the day before Ro ordered it, that is what I was dead set of getting. I love the look of the Kindle and that almost every book you buy at Amazon.com is $9.99, even new releases. I however did not like the fact that you can't save your ebook anywhere, that Amazon saves it for you, so if you were to accidentally delete it from your reader Amazon had it on back up. Yes, it sounds nice, but after reading the reviews of the Kindle I saw the catch. And yes it is a big one! If you buy a normal paperback book from the bookstore, and it goes out of print, you still have the book. It is still on your bookshelf. Well, if you buy a book off Amazon, and it goes out of print, well its gone. Disappears. The book that you paid for is no longer yours because it went out of print. Also if you buy magazine subscriptions, they only save them for like 6 days and after that you can never retrieve them again. As soon as I read 4 or 5 reviews complaining about that I was on my way out with the Kindle. Then I read that you can only use the wireless whispernet in Sprint areas. Well, Sprint does not work where I live. Even though that little map that shows in red the areas, well it doesn't work here. So I would have had to download my books somewhere else. Like drive south 10 miles, sit in my car, download a book and drive back. Sounds like fun... After I threw out the idea of the Kindle I went back to my first choice that I wanted way back when I first wanted a reader. I went to look for the Sony PRS-700. They were out of stock and not coming back. So I had to look into other Sony readers. I decided on the PRS-600 because it is very much like the 700, touchscreen and 6in, but it just didn't have the backlight. I looked at all the reviews on the website about it. I did notice a lot of the cons were the glare, but I went with it anyways. It took me 2 days to decide what color I wanted. I really wanted the red, but it was quite flashy and I know that I will be bringing it to Chile, and the less flashy the better. So it was between black and silver. I decided Silver. So on Tuesday Ro ordered it for me and it was off and ready to be shipped in 5 to 7 days. Yes I said on Tuesday, yesterday was Thursday. It only took 2 days!!! Props to FedEx!

I originally planned to wait to review it until I had it for at least 3 days, but I of course couldn't wait. I give it a rating of 4 and a half stars. It lost that last half star because of, well the glare. It doesn't bother me all that much pretty much you just can't sit under a huge bright light. I haven't tried it in sunlight, but I don't think that will be a problem. I am amazed at the eink Vizplex screen. It honestly looks just like paper! I love it. The contrast is just right and since I can't find my glasses at the moment I have the text at size L. If I was completely blind or if I wanted to let a kid read with it, which I will never ever ever do, I can set the size to XXL which is huge but nice. One of my favorite features on the eReader is the built in dictionary. I love it. If there is a word that I don't know or can't remember or even one of those words you use all the time, but don't even know the true definition all i have to do is tap on it 2 times and the dictionary tells me the definition. There are 2 options for turning the page, there is a button left and right to turn, or you just swipe your finger on the bottom of the screen and the page will turn!! It simple to use and as it only weighs 10 oz it easily replaces my need to take ONLY 3 books when I fly back and forth to Chile. Before I had to choose which books to bring and which books to leave. Now as soon as I build up my own little library I never have to choose. Ever. I highly doubt I will ever fill it up it has built in memory usable to me of 380MB plus a slot for SD cards that can handle 16 GB cards, and a slot for memory stick Pro Duo that can also handle 16GB. So lots and lots of memory. Oh, and it has these little plastic "fake" memory cards to go in the slots to protect it from dust and what not. They probably aren't THAT amazing, but I think they are pretty cool. I can put music on it so I no longer have a use for my ipod. (ipod nano for sale!!) I can also store pictures on it, but you can only view them in black and white and they are quite dark to look at. Like pics in a newspaper. I don't think I will really store pics on it. It came with some books already on it, but I deleted them because most of them were in a different language that I don't know. None were in Spanish. I have been to google books and put on a few free books to read for now. And Ro found me a pdf book and he sent me that. So I have 4 books on it right now and once I am able to I will most likely buy Dan Brown's new book The Lost Symbol. So, for all of you book loving travelers out there, I seriously do recommend that you get a reader. They are worth it!! I can't seem to take a good pic of the reader, so there is my picture to show the glare problem. I still can't figure out how to put the pic where I want.