[garygibsonsf]

I think I might already have taken a look at the cybook website at some point - if I didn't, I don't know how I might have missed it - but my main problem was finding someone who could actually sell it to me. I did just trip over the NAEB link which is useful, but reveals to me that the Cybook is quite a bit more expensive than the Sony.

The Sony still feels like a better bet because of the lower cost, and even despite the hassle of occasional drm issues. It's just a question of how much trouble you're prepared to put up with to get the optimal experience with the books you want to read, and my personal tolerance levels are actually quite high. It reads pdf's and text files and so forth, and I say this DESPITE being a Mac owner (although I should have access to a PC in taiwan, depending on how annoyed its owner gets about it). After all, there is now some software out there that can run on OSX and talk to a Sony Reader, which for the moment is good enough for me. Further, Sony is kind of a known name, in the sense that it's less likely to disappear out of existence than, I might imagine, the manufacturers of the Cybook, in a few years time, if they get taken over or forced out of business by the developing reader market.