The older Sony readers greyed out the overlapping text when in landscape mode. To me that was even more annoying than the way the new readers display it. Personally I like the way my K3 does landscape mode totally independent of portrait mode and reflows the text so that you don't get any overlapping. I'm not sure why Sony insists on doing landscape the way they do, but then I'm not sure why Sony does a lot of the things they do with their readers.