Intervention

[the_other_sandy]

Somebody talk me out of buying an e-book reader. The Sony Reader Pocket Edition is on sale until April 3. I want one, but I'm supposed to be reading this giant pile of real books I have. If I buy an e-book reader, I'm only going to put fic on it and read that instead. Besides, the Pocket Edition has the least amount of on board memory of all available e-book readers and has no SD card slot to add more memory. But it's on sale for the least amount I've ever seen a reliable e-book reader sell for.

Tell my inner miser to shut up and read the books it already has.

Comments

[asyouleft.livejournal.com]

You should get it! I'm thinking of buying one or a Kindle pretty soon, haha.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Well, you're no help. ;-)

Honestly, if it had an SD card slot, I probably would have bought it already. I just can't get past the lousy 512 MB of memory, even if the price is right up my street.

[asyouleft.livejournal.com]

Yeah that is pretty low memory. Yeah, I'm no help here, lol.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to be any help, either, because I've got a Sony and I LOVE it. So no, I'm not going to talk you out of it. ;-)

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Which Sony do you have? I've been looking at PRS-505s on eBay because those had an SD card slot, but they've been selling for as much as or more than a new reader.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

That's the exact one I have!

[bookwurm.livejournal.com]

Try to be patient! The prices will keep coming down. Also, you'll be able to get used versions of older models at better prices as new ones are released.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to be patient, but I've been making saving throws vs. e-reader since before the Kindle 2 came out. It's getting a lot harder.

I'm watching somewhere around 8 Sony PRS-505s (discontinued model) on eBay right now.