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I use a PRS900 for PDFs. A slightly bigger screen would be nice, but it works. I read mostly PDFs in landscape mode, so that a third of a page is displayed. It works great if you are not too concerned with tables/graphs and so forth.
Reflowing works well too - but I like to annotate my files and, well, if you take handwritten notes on anything reformatted, they will display only in that particular format. If you don't care for annotations...
So I settle for just landscape. As above, if you are dealing with mostly text, it works great.
The PRS900 has lots of other advantages/disadvantages. Too many to discuss here. But the ones that are key to me:
Pluses:
- Sturdy, nice design.
- Long battery life (well, most e-ink devices...)
- Touchscreen.
- The whole annotations system. Being able to highlight, take freehand notes, view those on my PC and then export them...
- Supports a variety of formats. I bought it for PDFs, but ended up using it much more than I thought.
- 3G is nice, especially for newspapers in the morning.
- Built-in dictionaries.
- Replaceable battery.
Minuses:
- Glare. It bothers some, doesn't bother others. You just need to see one in real life and decide where you stand.
- Poor contrast, at least compared to some other non-touchscreen devices.
- SONY's Reader software is not as bad as some make it sound - but it certainly isn't flexible nor user-friendly. Backing things up is a nightmare.
- The device slows down with too many notes, files, highlights, etc. Also, if you have too many books on it, then every time you turn it on it takes a long time to rebuild the database. To the point of becoming unusable. SONY should be sued for claiming you can carry thousands of books. Load 500 books on the PRS900 and it will take over 4 hours to turn on.
- A good number of PRS900s have screens that fade in the sun. SONY replaces them for free, but it's still a hassle.
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