The Sony Reader has a few kinks to be ironed out. Like an Etch A Sketch, the Reader’s screen has to wipe away each page before drawing the next one. Unfortunately, the result is a one-second white-black-white blink that quickly becomes annoying.
Sony has dreamed up some fairly baffling controls, too—not an easy feat on what should be a very simple machine. For example, the next/previous page buttons are at 2 and 8 o’clock on a dime-size desk. A circular control might make sense if it had buttons at all four points of the compass—but only two? There’s no search function, video or clickable links, either. So much for those key e-book advantages.
—New York Times / DAVID POGUE
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