When I first looked at this I have to say that I wasn't convinced. People like books, why would they want to carry around yet another mobile device? But then my boss pointed out that it could be a really useful device for field engineers to carry service manuals or perhaps to download training documents to be read later. So I thought I would investigate as this sounded like a really good application of this emerging technology.
I visited the Sony site to see if I could get a handle on the features. The main thing I noticed was there was nothing on there that really told you how you would get training material onto the reader. This would need to be straightforward for people to adopt it for use in their businesses. It seems that you can download books, but you have to do it through the sony connect store using some software that is provided with the reader. (sounds a bit like the ipod and iTunes...just try getting anything that isn't bought from the apple iTunes store onto your iPod and you will have to trawl various forums to find out how to do it because Apple don't make it easy for you.) Also, although it does say that the reader stores pdf's blog entries etc...These need to be converted into the correct format by the accompanying software. Without buying one and trying it out, its going to be hard to assess how much of a faff this is going to be. I'll see if I can do that...and report back.
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