I probably should add a link to this pre-comment of Mike's on his amplified Reader review (mostly 'cause I found it funny):
http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/i-reader/
Here's the main overthread, for completeness' sake:
http://mikecane.wordpress.com/tag/sony-reader/
He does finaly answer the question of whether you can scan text from the Reader's screen with one of those line-scanner pen thingies. Too bad it didn't work, that would have been nice for capturing quotations.