Originally Posted by matt314159

I use the ebookapplications software on my 300, so maybe I can give you at least a partial answer. It's pretty great, for the most part. The software resides alongside the Sony firmware. When the device starts up, it gives you an option to go into the sony FW or the ebookapplications firmware. From within the ebookapps firmwrae, there's an option to go reboot to sony firmware.

You just unzip the folders to the root of the device, and restart, and voila, new firmware to play around with. To uninstall---you guessed it---delete the folders.

It does bring justification to ePub files, though I notice on the book I'm currently reading, it messes with the formatting a little so there's a tradeoff, I guess.

Some other things I like are the ability to choose between like 7 or 8 different font sizes, three different font faces, the ability to rotate the device to landscape in either direction (so you can hold it and change pages with either your right or left hand), not to mention it now has a dictionary.

I also notice page turns are quicker than the sony firmware, when you are using larger fonts. Small fonts actually seem to take longer.

Let's see, what else? There is a clock, but so far, for me, it's never worked right. Overall, I'd say that when this is polished, and ported over to the likes of the 600, it will be very good. Not sure how the 600 port would go with the touch screen options, to me it seems it would need a full re-write instead of just porting it over, but I like what I've seen so far. It's free, easy to install, easy to uninstall, makes no changes to sony's own file system...a very good addition to my 300.

Oh, I also like that the ebook apps firmware makes the text go all the way to the edges of the screen, it doesn't leave much of a margin at all...helps you shoehorn a few more words a page that way, probably.