Good Morning!

Coastal Flood Warning in effect until 9 am CST this morning...

Wind Advisory in effect until noon CST today...

Flash Flood Watch in effect until noon CST today...

Tornado Watch 787 in effect until 10 am CST this morning...


Nothing like a little weather to break up the monotony.... At least this mess should be over today some time.

I'm sure there is lots of flooding, given the way the rain is coming down. Worse than many a hurricane...

Sony 600 Touch

My brand new ebook reader arrived yesterday between downpours in a rented truck. Fed Ex was apparently having their problems.

Anyway, several things so far:

It is, overall, almost identical in size to the PRS-505.  It is a bit thinner than the 505, and a bit lighter.

I've seen some folks say that the touch screen makes the grey-scale not as crisp or sharp. I do not see it when I put the two of them together. The sharpness and contrast is nearly identical, or at least as like as much that it makes no difference for reading them.

I really like that Sony did away with the round controls and put smaller buttons on the front.  You don't have to use the touch feature to read, instead there is a small bar to press for paging through a book.

And this version gives you more options for text size than the last. The 505 gave you 3 size options, the Touch has five.

Reading screen is nearly identical in size to the 505.

This version solves the one issue I miss most about reading ebooks on a PDA.  I can now take notes on an ebook.  I haven't messed with the feature yet, but it looks to be much the same as with a PDA.

I'll report in again as I get used to it.