Has the Sony Reader Wi-Fi Actually Got a Shot?

The six - inch E - ink ebook reader is the world ’s lightest at that size , and its touchscreen display mean you may comment pages on the screen using either your fingerbreadth or included stylus ( the finger may be fumbling , but it experience more magical ) . The 2 GB internal memory is salutary for 1,200 ebooks , while a microSD one-armed bandit allow for enlargement up to 32 GB . Battery life : a calendar month , if you read a half hour every day . But most significantly ? Sony finally put Wi - Fi in an ebook reader . No , really . They had n’t yet .

Those are features you’re able to encounter by varying degrees in the Nook Simple Touch , yes , or the latest Kindle . But at least it competes ! And looks a little , well , angulate and maybe frigid but hey some masses are into that . That is , after all , how books calculate .

So mayhap we think of the Reader Wi - Fi as a third party campaigner , the Ralph Nader or Ross Perot of the ebook interpretation world . It ’s even receive a niche platform : there ’s a modified edition translation of the Reader Wi - Fi that includes a coupon that let you download a playscript from Pottermore , JK Rowling’sprofoundly weird palisade wizard garden . Enough , on its own , to make you jump ship from Amazon to the Reader Store ? Probably ( hopefully ) not . But the gimmick itself is different enough , capable - seeming enough , to make Sony part of the ebook reader conversation again . And that ’s a first . We ’ll see out just how much of one when it launch in October , for a surprisingly reasonable $ 150 . [ SonyviaTechCrunch ]

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