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At first glance both Kindle and Sony readers have similar technology in terms of display features, for example E ink display, processor type, memory storage modes and memory medium like the memory sticks. Both items can support a similar readability with zooming features and built-in fonts. Sony and Amazon are also considered as the earlier pioneers in supplying Electronics book readers solutions. With the increasing competition however, the differences between Kindle and Sony Ebook Reader have also become more obvious.
Here we discuss some of the features.
Weight
Sony Book reader weighs 7.76 ounces while Kindle 3 weighs 8.7ounces. This may be due to the smaller 5 inches display size that Sony Reader offers which makes a better portability here.
Storage
Kindle 3 with larger 4GB built in memory can store about ten times more ebooks than what Sony reader can take, i.e 3500 kindle books instead of 350 Sony ebooks.
Display Size
Reader has a smaller 5 inches display size compared to Amazon Kindle 3. You will need to determine if portability is more important than readability for your reading needs.
Display Quality
Kindle 3 has a far better display quality with 16 levels as compared to 8 levels of display quality offered by the Sony Reader.
Battery Life
Kindle 3 can operate for about one month while Reader can operate only for about two weeks. This is assumed without any wireless connection of Wifi or 3G.
Connectivity
Kindle supports both Wifi and wireless 3G connection while Sony Ebook Reader only can support USB2.0. Having Wifi And Wireless 3G features built-in are essential for an accessibility reason. The Kindle can be operated alone without any computer. It contains an EVDO cellular 3G connection to the Internet over Sprint. Amazon's Kindle 3 offers the feature of Whispernet, free Internet access and free Wikipedia. On the other hand, Sony's reader lacks this key wireless feature. IT savvy readers will not find Sony useful because you have to upload books into your reader beforehand. For the Kindle however, you can buy books whenever you want or get them free at a kindle store.
File Types
Kindle 3 supports more popular file types including HTML, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, MOBI, PRC, AA, AAX and MP3. Sony Reader only supports a small number of file types including ePub, Word, RTF, BBeB
Text To Speech
Kindle 3 offers this awesome feature to help it's readers to read at anytime or anywhere even when the user is on the move or walking. What the user needs to do is to enable this text to speech mode and plugs the earpieces into ears for audio reading.
Text Resize
Both ebook readers can support the text resize function.
Sync to multiple devices
Sony eReader is the only proprietary reader for its support file types. Kindle 3 with its free kindle application can support other devices like iPad, iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, PC and Mac.
Colors
Sony eReader has different colors like Navy Blue, Rose and Silver while Kindle 3 has only a white and graphite color selection.
Other features
Kindle 3 has a greater shock protection feature which enables it to absorb the impact from being dropped.
Kindle 3 has over 620,000 selection of Kindle books from its Kindle Store which provides a huge selections of magazines, blogs and books.
Far and away the Kindle 3 is the better choice.
Megan Sara Jones is the author of four Ebooks published on Amazon. For more information on this article, or all things connected with Kindle readers or Ebooks please visit Everything Kindle.
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