Me too!!!! I just came in from sitting outside in the sun. I was reading using my 350 which is also silver with chrome buttons. The sun shining on it was so intense that I had considerable eyestrain. Thirty minutes later my eyes are still watering a bit.

It makes me wonder if the Sony engineers who designed the readers actually use them? The readers are well designed electronically, but not aesthetically. The buttons are in the worst positions for portrait reading and using highly reflective silver paint and chromed trim was totally stupid. They do have sunshine in Japan, right?