Comments on: Two weeks with a Sony PRS-700: Unexpected uses and a disappointing discovery http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/two-weeks-with-a-sony-prs-700-unexpected-uses-and-a-disappointing-discovery/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:56:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nico http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/two-weeks-with-a-sony-prs-700-unexpected-uses-and-a-disappointing-discovery/comment-page-1/#comment-1070475 Nico Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:21:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=22810#comment-1070475 With my Sony, I've found that a table of contents is the function of the ebook, not the device. Some ebooks have them, some don't, and there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to it. Although, free or pirated ebooks are less likely to have a table of contents. With my Sony, I’ve found that a table of contents is the function of the ebook, not the device. Some ebooks have them, some don’t, and there doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason to it. Although, free or pirated ebooks are less likely to have a table of contents.

]]> By: Liviu http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/two-weeks-with-a-sony-prs-700-unexpected-uses-and-a-disappointing-discovery/comment-page-1/#comment-1070192 Liviu Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:30:29 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=22810#comment-1070192 As hardware the 700 is superb imho - at least as eink goes, glare (which you really learn to avoid easily as a heavy user) and all, but I agree that the software is not great. FbReader, and now Stanza both of which I am a heavy user too leave the 700 software in the dust There are tricks you learn, reflexes you make - eg I close the cover, I bookmark my page by instinct, even if I open the cover 5s later - you learn how it is best to navigate each book (scroll, go to page, search..), but it's a pity simple features like last several opened books are not implemented, while for others you need to find out how to do it, not being obvious As hardware the 700 is superb imho – at least as eink goes, glare (which you really learn to avoid easily as a heavy user) and all, but I agree that the software is not great. FbReader, and now Stanza both of which I am a heavy user too leave the 700 software in the dust

There are tricks you learn, reflexes you make – eg I close the cover, I bookmark my page by instinct, even if I open the cover 5s later – you learn how it is best to navigate each book (scroll, go to page, search..), but it’s a pity simple features like last several opened books are not implemented, while for others you need to find out how to do it, not being obvious

]]> By: Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/two-weeks-with-a-sony-prs-700-unexpected-uses-and-a-disappointing-discovery/comment-page-1/#comment-1069594 Chris Meadows Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:22:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=22810#comment-1069594 <b>HeavyG:</b> As slow as the 700 is at other tasks, such as reformatting pages for new font sizes, I suspect it would take forever to search through something the size of a Bible. <b>Liviu:</b> Hmm, I'll have to look for that. Even if it is there, it still seems a bit of a failing to me that it's hidden away under an "Options" dialogue…somewhere I would look for formatting changes and the like, not something as basic as a TOC. HeavyG: As slow as the 700 is at other tasks, such as reformatting pages for new font sizes, I suspect it would take forever to search through something the size of a Bible.

Liviu: Hmm, I’ll have to look for that. Even if it is there, it still seems a bit of a failing to me that it’s hidden away under an “Options” dialogue…somewhere I would look for formatting changes and the like, not something as basic as a TOC.

]]> By: Liviu http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/two-weeks-with-a-sony-prs-700-unexpected-uses-and-a-disappointing-discovery/comment-page-1/#comment-1069574 Liviu Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:38:46 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=22810#comment-1069574 If the book is formatted in lrf with table of contents, you find it under option. If the book is formatted in lrf with table of contents, you find it under option.

]]> By: HeavyG http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/two-weeks-with-a-sony-prs-700-unexpected-uses-and-a-disappointing-discovery/comment-page-1/#comment-1069540 HeavyG Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:45:52 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=22810#comment-1069540 <i>"The exercise of trying to look up verse citations called my attention to a shortcoming of the 700 that I had not noticed as much before: the lack of a “table of contents” function."</i> Uhhh...you couldn't use the search function of the device to find a bible verse???? “The exercise of trying to look up verse citations called my attention to a shortcoming of the 700 that I had not noticed as much before: the lack of a “table of contents” function.”

Uhhh…you couldn’t use the search function of the device to find a bible verse????

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