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Pocket-Lint have published a review or the Sony Reader PRS-505 portable book reader. 'The Sony Reader, or PRS-505, presents a 6-inch E Ink display, lovingly set in a metal body, the front of which is somewhat cluttered with buttons. The grey lining to the sophisticated leather cover, paired with the silver-grey metal body of the Reader itself results in a combination that is sensitive to the needs of a reader - it doesn't distract your eyes from the text. E Ink displays avoid backlighting of any sort, so this is nothing like reading on an LCD display: it’s like reading grey paper.

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Laptop Magazine have published a review of the Sony Reader Digital Book PRS-505. 'The rectangular 6-inch LCD is still surrounded by an overabundance of keys: When you hold it in portrait mode, buttons numbered 0-9 run vertically along the right side and correspond to menu items on the screen; they can also be used to move to selected pages. Next to them are two more keys used to turn pages. On the bottom left of the device is another page-turning button, and on the bottom right is a menu button and four-way toggle with a center button, which made navigating the onscreen menus easy. A power switch is located on the top of the device, along with an SD/Memory Stick Pro slot, and the bottom holds the volume control and the mini-USB, DC charging, and headphone ports.'

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