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Sony Reader, the Glossary

The was a line of e-book readers manufactured by Sony.^[1]

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Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

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Adobe Content Server

Adobe Content Server is software developed by Adobe Systems to add digital rights management to e-books.

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Adobe Digital Editions

Adobe Digital Editions (abbreviated ADE) is an e-book reader software program from Adobe.

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Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression.

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Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle are Dedicated ebook devices and Linux-based devices.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Argos (retailer)

Argos Limited is a British catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and formerly in Ireland, acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016.

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AT&T Mobility

AT&T Mobility, LLC, also known as AT&T Wireless and marketed as simply AT&T, is an American telecommunications company.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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The Barnes & Noble Nook (styled nook or NOOK) is a brand of e-readers developed by American book retailer Barnes & Noble, based on the Android platform. Sony Reader and Barnes & Noble Nook are Dedicated ebook devices.

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BBeB

BBeB (for Broad Band eBook) is a proprietary eBook file format developed by Sony and Canon.

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Best Buy

Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.

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Bitmap

In computing, a bitmap (also called raster) graphic is an image formed from rows of different colored pixels.

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Borders Group

Borders Group, Inc. (former NYSE ticker symbol BGP) was an American multinational book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.

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Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.

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Calibre (software)

Calibre is a cross-platform free and open-source suite of e-book software.

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CNET

CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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Comparison of e-readers

An e-reader, also known as an e-book reader, is a portable electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading e-books and periodicals. Sony Reader and Comparison of e-readers are Dedicated ebook devices and electronic paper technology.

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Costco

Costco Wholesale Corporation (commonly shortened to Costco) is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores.

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Cyrillic script

The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.

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Doc (computing)

.doc (an abbreviation of "document") is a filename extension used for word processing documents stored on Microsoft's proprietary Microsoft Word Binary File Format; it was the primary format for Microsoft Word until the 2007 version replaced it with Office Open XML.docx files.

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Docudesk

Docudesk offers commercial PDF software for creating and converting portable document format (PDF) files.

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Dots per inch

Dots per inch (DPI, or dpiThe acronym appears in sources as either "DPI" or lowercase "dpi". See: (PDF). Xerox.com. September 2012.) is a measure of spatial printing, video or image scanner dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed in a line within the span of.

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E Ink

E Ink (electronic ink) is a brand of electronic paper (e-paper) display technology commercialized by the E Ink Corporation, which was co-founded in 1997 by MIT undergraduates JD Albert and Barrett Comiskey, MIT Media Lab professor Joseph Jacobson, Jerome Rubin and Russ Wilcox. Sony Reader and e Ink are electronic paper technology.

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E-reader

An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals. Sony Reader and e-reader are Dedicated ebook devices and electronic paper technology.

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Ebook

An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Sony Reader and ebook are electronic paper technology.

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Electronic paper

Electronic paper or intelligent paper, is a display device that reflects ambient light, mimicking the appearance of ordinary ink on paper - unlike conventional flat panel displays which need additional energy to emit their own light. Sony Reader and Electronic paper are electronic paper technology.

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.

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EPUB

EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the ".epub" file extension. Sony Reader and EPUB are electronic paper technology.

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Evernote

Evernote is a note-taking and task-management application developed by the Evernote Corporation.

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Flash memory

Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.

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Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Fry's Electronics

Fry's Electronics was an American big-box store chain.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.

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Gigabyte

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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International Data Group

International Data Group (IDG, Inc.) is a market intelligence and demand generation company focused on the technology industry.

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John Lewis & Partners

John Lewis & Partners (formerly and commonly known as John Lewis) is a British brand of high-end department stores operating throughout the United Kingdom, with concessions also located in Ireland.

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JPEG

JPEG (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.

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Kinoma

Kinoma, a division of Marvell Semiconductor, is a software engineering group providing an open-source, cross-platform ECMAScript stack aimed at developing software for Internet of Things products and other embedded devices.

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Kobo eReader

The Kobo eReader is an e-reader produced by Toronto-based Kobo Inc (a subsidiary of Rakuten). Sony Reader and Kobo eReader are Dedicated ebook devices and electronic paper technology.

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Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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List price

The list price, also known as the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP), or the recommended retail price (RRP), or the suggested retail price (SRP) of a product is the price at which its manufacturer notionally recommends that a retailer sell the product.

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Lithium-ion battery

A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses the reversible intercalation of Li+ ions into electronically conducting solids to store energy.

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Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Memory Stick

The Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, originally launched by Sony in late 1998. Sony Reader and memory Stick are Sony products.

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Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft.

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MontaVista

MontaVista Software is a company that develops embedded Linux system software, development tools, and related software.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Open-source license

Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared.

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OS X Lion

OS X Lion, also known as Mac OS X Lion, (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers.

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OverDrive, Inc.

OverDrive, Inc. is a worldwide digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, online magazines and streaming video titles.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.

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PNG

Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced, colloquially pronounced) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.

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Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

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Rich Text Format

) As an example, the following RTF code would be rendered as follows: This is some bold text.

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RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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SD card

Secure Digital, officially abbreviated as SD, is a proprietary, non-volatile, flash memory card format the SD Association (SDA) developed for use in portable devices.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sony Centre

Sony Centre or Sony Center is a chain of stores in Europe that sells electrical goods made by manufacturer Sony.

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Sony Connect

Sony Connect, stylised Sony CONNECT, was the name for a series of related software products by Sony, most notably the Connect Music Store online music store.

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Sony Digital Paper

Sony Digital Paper is a line of tablet-size E ink devices by Sony, aimed at business professionals to read and edit digital documents. Sony Reader and Sony Digital Paper are electronic paper technology.

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Sony Reader

The was a line of e-book readers manufactured by Sony. Sony Reader and Sony Reader are Dedicated ebook devices, electronic paper technology, Linux-based devices and Sony products.

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Sony Tablet

is a discontinued series of Android based tablet computers, produced from 2011 to 2012 by Sony Corporation. Sony Reader and Sony Tablet are Sony products.

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Tablet computer

A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.

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Text file

A text file (sometimes spelled textfile; an old alternative name is flatfile) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Touchscreen

A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of display that can detect touch input from a user.

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Typeface

A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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USB hardware

The initial versions of the USB standard specified connectors that were easy to use and that would have acceptable life spans; revisions of the standard added smaller connectors useful for compact portable devices.

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USB mass storage device class

The USB mass storage device class (also known as USB MSC or UMS) is a set of computing communications protocols, specifically a USB Device Class, defined by the USB Implementers Forum that makes a USB device accessible to a host computing device and enables file transfers between the host and the USB device.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Reader

Also known as PRS 505, PRS-500, PRS-505, Portable Reader, Reader Library, Sony Ereader, Sony Librie, Sony PRS-505, Sony PRS-T1, Sony PRS-T2, Sony Portable Reader, Sony eBook Library.

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Electronic paper technology

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