Were it not for the matter of the lack of dictionary ...

An upgrade from the Kindle was matured and It was supposed to be the Paperwhite. But the possibility of "unlimited" memory via SD memory card spoke for the Sony Reader. I have a library for the space in the Paperwhite would not have been sufficient. Read all local and offline completely, that was the goal. Evernote and Facebook connectivity of the reader I still tested: works, but I'll hardly use it. I have a day needed to check the most important functions, am completely satisfied and must not go into the details: The Sony Reader is absolutely on par with the Kindle. Only, which is why only four out of five stars: the installed dictionaries Dictionaries are all (I need at the German texts not) and, unfortunately, is not a German-speaking foreign words later installation. I do think that that's a bitter pill in an otherwise very coherent package.