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Just took delivery of one of these. Like it so far.
One niggle seems to be the susceptibility of the device to large changes in visual output after firmware upgrade. That niggle, though, is tempered by the thought that I just skipped about 10 firmware levels (v1.23 to the latest 1.25).
The device seems to be quite sensitive to carriage return (\r) processing. A bit odd to rely so heavily on dos (windoze) formatting techniques on a Linux based device. Fortunately I'm a programmer so I'm post-processing a lot of material using the usual commandline Linux tools (and perl...a lot of perl).
The latest firmware (2008-01-29) seems to have snafu'd RTF formatted text for me...the unit just isn't processing whatever benighted technique rtf uses to move from one line to the next...weird output abounds.
At this point I'm (sort of) enjoying myself translating the material I have onhand to .fb2 (FictionBook) format, which frankly kicks butt compared to everything else I'm looking at. Having trouble finding repositories of e-books which are in .fb2 format (and aren't in cyrillic). Still, most works are relatively easy to convert...although the density of poetry in Lewis Carroll can be a challenge.
Well this turned into a ramble, didn't it.
What do I think of the reader itself? Based on under 24 hours usage - its great.
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