I am pretty computer savvy, and I had read about the finger swipe. The interesting thing is it came out of the box with 1.4.3 and in that version you could swipe the n to turn pages. I updated to 1.5 and you can no longer do that, just on the LCD strip. But finger swiping is my preferred page turn by far. The keyboard is just like the one on my Samsung Focus (Windows 7 phone), so feels very natural to me.
I also installed Calibre and used it to sideload about 30 books, a lot of them from the Baen free library.
SUPER EASY.