Sony ebook Reader now uses Adobe Digital Editions (sort of Adobe Acrobat Reader) to help you read PDF files. The only issue is that colored illustrations in your PDF ebooks, magazines and technical manuals will appear in black and white.
The Sony Reader can read Microsoft Office Word .doc files, Adobe PDF documents and plain text [...]

Walt Mossberg was not very pleased with the hardware design of Amazon Kindle e-book reader though he did prefer it over Sony Reader for ease of downloading books.

But when fans asked Walt to pick just one of the two ebook readers, his choice was surprisingly Amazon Kindle (that costs $100 more than Sony Reader).

Considering that Walt’s review in WSJ can make or break products, this will be a big win for Amazon Kindle that also received quite a favorable review from David Pogue of New York Times.

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