Sony PRS-505 Digital eBook Book Reader

Provided by Brookstone

With its sleek and slim design, the reader holds up to 160 books and comes with 100 Free eBook classics. Weighing about 9 ounces and only 1/2" thick, it's perfect for travel. The 6" E Ink display technology and the ability to adjust font sizes make reading a pleasure. The built-in rechargeable Li-Ion battery lasts up to two weeks worth of reading and can be recharged with the included AC adapter or via your computer's USB port. The Sony CONNECT eBook store provides for easy browsing and purchasing. Plus, the Reader now supports ePub files, the MP3 files of electronic publishing, making available an even wider selection of electronic material. Compatible with Windows Vista�/XP. 7" w x ½" d x 5" h.

NOW AVAILABLE! In collaboration with Google over 500,000 additional book titles are now available for Free download. This now brings the total of book titles available for the Sony Reader to more than 600,000. The 500,000 additional titles being provided at no additional cost, can be downloaded from the eBook Store from Sony.

Ultra portable
The Reader Digital Book offers a unique, on-the-go reading experience and is the perfect travel companion. With a compact and lightweight design, you can take it almost anywhere and read your books whenever and wherever you want. More compact than many paperbacks, it weighs about 9 ounces (without cover), is 1/2" thin, and holds up to 160 eBooks. You can easily hold it in one hand, and with its rechargeable battery, you can turn up to 7,500 continuous pages on a single charge.

Impressive, paper-like display
The Reader Digital Book provides a new way to experience reading. It boasts an impressive 6-inch display, utilizing breakthrough E Ink technology that's almost paper-like, making it easy to read, even in bright sunshine. In addition, the screen allows for high contrast and high resolution, with a near 180-degree viewing angle. The text can also be magnified for sight-impaired readers.

Content storage capability
With a compact and lightweight design you can take the Reader Digital Book almost anywhere. And with plenty of internal memory, and a slot for optional removable memory cards, you can take hundreds of titles, user-selected Web content, or other supported documents for reading on the go. It will hold approximately 160 averaged sized eBooks in internal memory and hundreds more with optional removable memory cards.

Multiple eBook titles available
The Reader Digital Book allows you to search, browse, discover, and buy thousands of new releases, classics and popular eBook titles from the Integrated eBook Store and other participating websites. You can even go to other sites that have unsecured eBooks in file formats that the Reader supports. This translates into an incredible amount of content suitable for the Reader.

More than eBooks
The Reader Digital Book isn't just about reading eBooks. Using the included eBook Library 2.0 PC Software, you can easily transfer Adobe PDF documents, Microsoft Word documents and other text file formats to the Reader, allowing you the flexibility to access and view multiple files at any time.

Now ePub compatible!
ePub files are the equivalent of MP3 files in the electronic publishing world. The Reader now supports ePub files, making an even wider array of electronic materials easily downloadable.

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A California recycling fee will be charged to all units shipped to CA.