Sony PRS-T2 6" Touchscreen Digital eBook Reader w/E-Ink Technology, Built-in Wi-Fi & microSD Card Slot (Black)

This e-reader is everything that you'd expect from any other Sony product. It's has a very fast response time and has a great contrast ratio. I have loaded this thing with an SD card containing about 35-50 books and i scroll through them with ease. it saves the last page read for every book on the unit. so you can read several books at the same time without having to remember which page you left off at. when you switch to standby mode the cover art for the book is displayed on the screen and it doesn't use any battery power while in this state, although after a while of sitting there it does completely switch off and the screen will go blank. it turns on withing 20-30sec when you turn it back on so all in all not a real big deal.The battery has yet to run out on me and i do use it for a couple of hours a day. just make sure you turn off the wifi if you don't need it. the menu is very easy to navigate and is very intuitive.If you want a great e-book reader then this is the unit for you.

I purchased this device several months ago for academic reading and note-taking. It seemed great according to the specs and special abilities, like being able to take handwritten notes, but when I received it, I had nothing but problems with the software. I have learned to deal with many of the quirks of the unit since switching to Calibre library management software, but I don't think I will be buying any Sony readers in the future. Let's start with the cons, mostly of the software, since there are quite a few of them.Cons:- Sony's Reader software, both on the computer and on the e-reader itself, is unrefined, unintuitive, clunky, lacking basic features, and confusing.- Many of the basic options that one might need, including such simple and essential tasks like deleting a book, are buried in menus and often need unintuitive gestures or double-taps to access.- If you are attempting to load the unit with more books than it has room for, it fails the transfer with no explanation. I am baffled as to why there is not a "more space required" dialogue in these situations. There is no indicator bar to show how full the unit is.- When reading a document while zoomed in, the zoom will default if you change the orientation of the unit. It will also zoom out if you try to use the annotation. Zooming back in disables the annotation- Not sure how I am supposed to annotate or take notes on text that is too small to read.- The unit has issues loading PDF files with certain date formatting. I use the unit primarily for scientific reading, and nearly all of the PDF articles that I download from certain sites end up being incompatible for this reason.- Unit responds very slowly. Sometimes you press a button and nothing happens, so you press it again thinking that you didn't press it hard enough, but the second press activates a feature on the next page that hasn't even loaded yet.- There is no way to edit book title information on the reader itself.- The above issues are only a sampling of this convoluted mess of a user interface.- The touchscreen itself is not responsive at the very edges, so if you are trying to circle a block of text, you will often get strange results near the edges of the screen.Pros:- Touchscreen, handwritten annotation capabilities, nice suede-like grippy rubber texture. The borders around the screen are narrow and it does not look like a Fischer-Price toy like some readers.- Calibre e-book library software can interface with the unit and alleviates many of the problems that come with Sony's computer-side e-reader software, but you still have to deal with the clunky Sony software on the reader itself.Verdict:- Would have potential to be an excellent note-taking e-reader if it wasn't crippled by Sony's poorly-streamlined software.

A very thin and elegant book reader. My previous book reader (Amazon Kindle) didn't work well with pdf documents, so I ordered this one. I found Sony PRS-T2HBC a lot better for reading pdf documents. One bit I don't like is that controls are a bit slow in pdf documents, i.e. it is slow to navigate between pages, highlight a text, etc. But they work fine in ePub documents.It has a touch screen and comes with a stylus. It would be great, if the screen had some built-in light. I haven't explored the book store of sony much, but on first look it didn't look as mature as that of Kindle. In the end I would say that I haven't used it much, but I have been pretty satisfied with it so far...

its so slow you forget what you were trying to read,. it is not user friendly at all it doesn't download all your ebooks . doesn't let u delete any books either. and the pages are hard to read makes you eyes strain. if I could I would return it but amazon is a pain to return anything. NOT HAPPY AT ALL. ;(

I have a PRS-350 that I really like. I invested in this unit for the ability to highlight sections and upload to Evernote. Most of the time, I could not upload to Evernote, despite in having access to two wireless networks. There other times I could not upload everything I highlighted, but only parts of a sentence. and...if you transfer books from your other sony reader, you have to remove the highlights and then rehighlight to try to send to evernote. Frustrating, the unit was connected to the internet, but Evernote periodically would say I was not and when I tried Facebook, could not connect to the internet.I spent alot of time with tech support, but despite his efforts which was appreciated, he could not solve my issues with the Sony PRS-T2 unit.Wait unit the bugs are worked out if you wish to use the Evernote or Facebook features. If you wish to have it strictly as an ereader, I don't think you will be disappointed.Really disappointed especially since it has a great screen and it's the perfect size. Debating about returning it, in hopes Sony will provide an update.