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I cant complain about the physical quality of my 900. I've only had it for about 6 months but so far so good. It does everything I bought it for and everything that the specs said it would. The biggest problem I've got is that it still does only what it did when I got it.
There has been no firmware or software updates, despite some issues that have been reported numerous times. There have been no updates of any sort. The nook, on the other hand, from what I've read, has had several updates. Sure a few of them have been to fix problems but there have been functionality additions as well.
I understand Sony, and other companies, don't want to give away updates when they can package them into a nice new reader and get people to buy an entire new device, but even a little something would be nice - just enough to show they haven't just stuck it on the market and forgotten about it.
And I'm only talking about the reader itself. You would think that they would notice that whenever someone mentions their software in a thread the very next post is almost invariably something along the lines of "You should check out Calibre". Are they not paying attention? Don't they care? Or are they that bad at communicating it? It is probably something of a combination of all 3.
Like I said, I love my 900, it is great, does exactly what I got it to do in exactly the way I thought it would. I'm still sure I made the right choice for my first reader without the benefit of knowing something of my usage requirements. I can safely say however, that my next reader most likely wont be Sony - not unless I see that they are making an effort.
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