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Good point. One of the main benefits is supposed to be saving trees by NOT having to print massive text books for schools and universities, for instance. They change often anyway.
In fact, this sort of device to me seems to be the missing piece for paperless office. Until now, as soon as you step away from your computer and had to carry some information to a meeting or some place else, you had to print. Laptops are still too big and PDA are too small. This device is just about the right size and more or less replicates paper experience. It should be possible to easily convert your data into PDF or TXT, quickly dump it into the reader and go, without having to print at all.
For instance, I am doing a bunch of reviews of a bunch of documents, most available in PDF. Also I need some reference material, like specs and standards. I need to take them to a meeting and to home. Laptop is too cumbersome and constantly has to be plugged in to recharge. Instead, using this thing I can carry all the docs any place for many days and not even think of battery.
It is interesting that so far many don't expect more than few years from their Cybook. Hmmmm
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