Thanks for the replies and the warm welcome

As for the comment made by Pdurrant about the fragility of the displays, I also mentioned that in my feedback, and Sriram Peruvemba suggested the video at this link:
http://www.eink.com/rugged.html
Looks like the displays are not necessarily the most fragile part anymore
I do have one question though, about battery life.. the battery came what looked like a full charge; I spent so much time with hooked to my computer, that at the end of the day (april 4th) the display said: battery completely charged or something like that.
This morning, however, the reader was off, and switching it on, it said: battery empty, and switched off again. Of course, I did not manage to make 7000 pageturns in these few days.. so is that battery life that bad, does it get better after a few charges, or do I have a faulty battery?