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I think most folks don't get e-ink and it's really only the display that sets the Sony apart from reading on a laptop or a PDA. In most other respects, its features are few. You'd get more from either of the others. It's basically a display for books. I think it's good hardware but I don't think it was enough to make ebooks that attractive especially considering the prices they were charging before Amazon got into the picture. I have been wanting a good reading device for years. Really since college and that was almost two decades ago. It was always the screen that stood in the way. When I saw the Sony in a shop with that display, I was thrilled. Then I researched it and found out you couldn't search a book. You couldn't look up stuff in a dictionary. You couldn't make notes. Books were almost hardback price, sometimes more. I was pretty disappointed that they had a great display and little else. They had computing power and didn't use it to offer much real functionality over the paper book. Add to that the rather predatory pricing and, I'm sorry, there's a reason Sony didn't get any credit for an ebook revolution. You could make a sound argument that the inventors or e-ink should, but not Sony.
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