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Sony Reader now available from Hammacher Schlemmer

HSCover.jpgThey call it the Paperless Paperback. Hammacher Schlemmer is re-branding the Sony Reader prs-505 as a VAR product.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that– the Sony reader is a good device (though I’m selling mine on eBay next week), and Sony has been co-branding its reader with other major brands, including the James Patterson special edition.

If you’re a paperless office devotee, you’ll appreciate how one book editor uses his Sony Reader. He accepts electronic submissions only, formats them for the Sony, and drops them onto his Reader. Then he takes them home and reads them to decide if he wants to publish the book or not. This is one of the best uses for an ebook reader, to my mind (though I would recommend the Amazon Kindle instead, since you can make notes in the book and your assistant can just email the incoming book to you… but more on that in another post).

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August 14, 2008 · Filed under Books

Book Review: The Practical Paperless Office

This is a very short PDF eBook (14 pages) that would best be described as a case study. The author is a legal professional focusing in online legal issues, so I would have expected more advice from the legal standpoint– which documents to keep, which are safe to discard, and how other legal professionals should approach their paperless office strategy.
I would not recommend this for anyone needing a really meaty, in-depth ebook on going paperless. It’s more like a 14-page executive summary, hitting the core ideas and giving a very strong sales pitch in favor of the paperless office.
At $5.50, it’s overpriced for a book, but underpriced for a business analysis. Unfortunately, it’s not meaty enough to stand in the business market, so the ebook falls short of my expectations.
However, if you’re a busy executive with little time on your hands and you want to read something to help convince you to set a strategic paperless office in motion, but someone else will be responsible for the actual implementation, then this is a good pick for you.
Small business owners and do-it-yourselfers need more content, I’m afraid, and should probably take a pass.

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August 13, 2008 · Filed under Books

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