What’s there to say about our favorite e-Book reader from CES? Not much really. Sony’s Reader Pocket Edition was the best in our opinon. It wasn’t particularly new or sexy looking, but it did the job better than any other device we looked at. It was the only e-Book reader (not including the other readers in Sony’s line-up) that tricked us into thinking the screen was a printed image. We asked for a working unit twice before the Sony rep at the booth looked at us funny and said, “Guys…these are live working units”. OOPS!!!

Price point was spot on at $199, but it wasn’t the price that made us love it. It was the single purpose simplicity in it’s design and execution that got our attention. If you’ve read our in depth series on e-book readers at CES, then you’ll know we were looking for something singularly simple, easy to use, and was the most comparable to a printed book experience available (which you’d think would be easy with a product for reading books). Sony’s Reader Pocket Edition, does the job absolutely perfectly.

Lightweight and easy to use and carry around, we couldn’t find a lot of things wrong with it. It’s not overloaded with features and capabilities, just an unpretentious little unit that lets you read what you want, easily. Granted, we had limited use of it, but based on everything else we saw and played with at the show over 4 days, Sony’s Reader Pocket Edition, was and is still the best available. That’s coming from someone who’s gifted both the Kindle and nook and have those same people wondering why I didn’t gift them something cheaper and easier to use (ungrateful, I know, but you get the point).

So, here’s the Golden Bucket Award to Sony for the best e-Book reader at CES 2010.

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