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  David H. Rothman - September 27th, 2006 at 11:40 am GMT+5

  Appreciated your info, Josh. Can you tell us more about your Sony encounter in that very dark room?

  I owned a Librie and found it a real hassle to read in dim light. I understand that Sony improved the screen a bit, but can you really read it “easily and without strain”?

  Under those circumstances, how close was the Sony to paper?

  As for the Edsel metaphor, I presented it as a question. My current belief is that the Sony will do okay as a niche product.

  Regardless of my dislike of proprietary formats and DRM, let’s hope that the Sony succeeds—for the general benefit of e-bookdom!

  Thanks,
  David Rothman

  P.S. Nice site!

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  Josh Goldman - September 27th, 2006 at 1:34 pm GMT+5

  The room was basically lit by candles and I didn’t have any trouble reading the print with the display at a general reading distance from my eyes, say about a foot. Probably about as much light as you’d get from a street light coming through a window. Enlarging the print a notch up from the default helped too. Plus, it didn’t make my eyes tired like looking at a backlit display tends to. And to clarify, I only read about three pages of text, so I don’t know for sure that after a half hour of reading I won’t want to throw the thing across the room. ;)
  My only real complaint was the flickering that occured on screen when you “turned” pages. I hope that the sales are good enough to encourage them to develop and release the next generation Reader.

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