Can't say for sure - but maybe a little paranoid. There are a handful of regulars here that you'll see on Mobile Read, too. (Entourage didn't have their own forum until just this last week or so, so many of us were posting there for months as we waited for the device to be released. No big surprise to see us there.)

Boris (whom you'll recognize from here) has also posted on at least Engadget, but you'll notice his comments are in the minority. Engadget and other mainstream tech sites haven't been quite so kind. I've posted on a TechCrunch article, but I don't think I can be mistaken for a company shill as I usually make a point of saying that I'm all about the stylus/tablet functionality, and I'm willing to put up with something more buggy, clunky and un-sleek in order to get it. Maybe not the most ringing endorsement, but fair, I think.

Bear in mind, too, that as we've discussed on a few forums, people who have the eDGe are reacting much more positively to it than typical tech reviewers because we are a self-selecting crowd that saw a need for and bought the device. So, we have instantly a reason to like it because basically we all want to annotate pdfs (among other things, but that seems to be a common thread) and there's no other device (other than a tablet PC) that has that ability right now. The reviewers might be less inclined to actually care about the features that we bought the eDGe for. So, they write a lukewarm review and a few of us get a little steamed that the review kind of misses the mark or doesn't tell the whole story, and we comment. (I read 2 mainstream tech reviews in one day where neither one mentioned that the eDGe had a stylus. Um, kind of a big deal to mention that, no?)

Is it any wonder some of us feel a need to speak up?