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It's very small, very light, and very, very cool. It was easy to load the 50-odd books I had accumulated while waiting, using VMWare Fusion on my Mac Mini to run the MobiPocket desktop software. The library looks quite cool, although navigating through hundreds of items would be a pain.
In order to turn a page it does require a solid, prolonged press of the quite firm button. I noticed that at first I was very tense when holding the Cybook, which made my thumb tire out. But when I made myself relax (it really is very, very light, so needs virtually no effort to hold) turning pages became almost unconscious. (The machine does seem to get into a state sometimes where the press is acknowledged -- the green light goes on -- but not enough to actually turn the page.)
Indeed, my highest praise is that it is possible to forget the medium entirely and concentrate on the message -- it seems just as easy (maybe even easier) to become engrossed in a book on the Cybook as with its dead-tree counterpart.
I very much look forward to taking the Cybook with me when I travel, no longer leaving me prey to the quality of bookshops (and time to visit them) at my destination. And being able to hold my new son in one arm and the Cybook in the other hand and read comfortably is marvelous (:
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