Hi gabster !
Welcome here
I live in Toulouse and recently bought a Sony Reader.
If you want and if we both find the time, we can try to meet so I could show you the Reader.
I love it ! I was reading on a clié before, and the e-ink has nothing in common : it's totally readable.
I bought my reader mid November and I've already read more than twenty novels on it
The only thing is : I don't know if you can get many German books without mobipocket drm which can't be convert to LRF.