Thanks guys! I really appreciate the info.
It's interesting that the Astak EZ reader did LIT, but my Mentor didn't. But alas, my Mentor is broken anyway. It didn't survive its last trans-atlantic flight.
So I have an iPhone and a Nook and an iPad on the way. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm rolling in cash. I didn't pay for the iPhone or the iPad. They belong to my employer. But so far they seem to be the best readers, with the exception of the LCD screen vs. an e-ink. Perhaps I am expecting too much from the dedicated readers. It just seems crazy to me that a free iPhone app does a better job than any dedicated reader that I've tried.
Anyway, enough of my childish-stomp-my-foot-with-hand-on-hip rants.
I will try softrooting my nook and see if that can make me happy enough with it not to return it. If that doesn't work, I will return it and try one of the Hanlin readers.
Oh, and while I'm at it, as to the question of why would I want to carry around 7 gigabytes of ebooks? Because I can! My question is: why wouldn't you? Memory is cheap. Go large!