Woot : Sony Digital Reader Pocket Edition (PRS-300)

Today Woot is selling a Refurbished Sony Digital Reader Pocket Edition (PRS-300) for $109.99 + $5 shipping. Its about $35 cheaper than you can find elsewhere in the internets,

I visit the Woot site every once in a while even though I am in Canada. The ads that are written for their deal of the day are often very very funny and this one is no exception. Where else can you  read ad copy for an e-book reader that includes the phrase "poop in a chamber pot"?

Here's the entire ad:

Woot : One Day, One Deal (SM): "Looks Like We Got Ourselves a Pocket Reader

The book of the future is here! Let’s flip to the end and find out how humanity becomes extinct.


Time was, when someone saw you reading a book on a plane and asked “what’s it about?” you could say “oh, about three hundred and fifty pages,” and it would be hilarious. Sadly, Sony’s Pocket Edition Digital Reader puts an end to that era. Now you’ll have to say “oh, five hundred and twelve megs.” It’s not as funny.

That’s the only downside we can see, though. In every other way, electronic books represent a bold stride over the rotting carcasses of yesterday’s plant-matter paper volumes and into a brighter tomorrow. No more funky, damp, used bookstore smell in our carry-on luggage! We’re going digital! That’s assuming the future even has carry-on luggage. We wouldn’t be surprised if Star Trek style Transporters are just around the corner. After all, we’re reading e-books already."

Slender, lightweight, and easy to tote in your jacket pocket, purse or sporran, this Pocket Edition Digital Reader uses E Ink Vizplex technology for minimal eyestrain and maximal readability—even in direct sunlight, not that the typical Wooter needs to worry about such a thing.

Plus, with a Sony Digital Reader, no one can tell what you’re reading, so you don’t have to be embarrassed about being seen in public with a TWILIGHT novel, and you can stop making those blank dust jacket covers out of old grocery bags.

Of course there will always be those technophobic, progress-averse Luddites who’ll whine about how you never have to worry about battery life with an olde-fashioned book of pulped and bound tree flesh. But you know something, Grandpa? You never have to worry about a sewage clog when you poop in a chamber pot, either. Does that make it better than our fancy, newfangled indoor plumbing?

No, it most certainly does not.