Let me introduce myself ...
My birthday just passed and my husband purchased me a PRS-505 and I am loving it! I've been looking at it for over a year and he said I was taking too long to make a decision, so he made it for me.
I'm not new to ebooks, just dedicated readers. Till now my reading devices were my computers, iPaq and i-Mate. While I love being able to tote around my books, and enjoy the all-in-one deivces like my i-Mate (pocketpc and cell), I find the backlight makes my eyes weary after long periods of reading. I enjoy reading on my laptop, but it's large and heavy. For the past couple of days I've been in bliss reading on my PRS-505.
I'm an ebook-holic. I have accumulated tons. My most used formats are .lit, .pdf (needs compression) and .chm, the latter two of which are mostly work related. As a computer engineer I get hundreds of technical articles and manuals in the .pdf and .chm format, thus my library is mostly full of boring technical manuals.
This year I decided to spend more time reading for enjoyment and the 505 will be a big help. As a big music lover, I'm also glad it can play music or the odd audiobook I have lying around.
I've already poured over the ebook index here and have several books now to read, thank you. I am looking forward to more reading and hopefully being able to contribute in the future, once I get a better handle on conversion. I get frustrated with poor formatting, and being a perfectionist, I just have to straighten badly formatted ebooks out. So at the very least, I hope to help in that capacity.
--end of babbling--
Doc Hamm
