My eyesight is getting worse nowadays. I read a lot of ebooks through the LCD screen that is tiring my eyes.  As a result, I decided to grab my first ebook reader with e-ink technology, SONY PRS-505. Unfortunately, this model only available in US. I placed my order with power seller in eBay and have it shipped all the way from US to Singapore. It is quite expensive honestly. Cost me USD300 in total.

I am quite suprised that it only takes 9 days to reach my doorstep. Far faster than Amazon who took a month plus to shipping my physical paper books.

The bottom right of the box is crumpled a bit but the “content” inside still in pretty good shape.

I quickly power it up and loaded it with a few PDFs but the zoom is not working properly with PDFs. The fonts are too small to read. Chinese characters are not supported as well although I knew this before hand.

I go on the web and grab the latest firmware from Sony supports. I flash the reader and it works like a charm. They have fixed the problems of PDFs and even support Chinese characters without any hacking that I planned to do it my own. Great job Sony! Now I can read the ebooks easily without making my eyes become worse.