Now this is a topic close to my heart, I had been searching for my first e-ink reader after years of using lcd devices. I finally settled on the Sony PRS-T1 as it was the closest to what I was after. Here's a list of my wants in an e-ink reader:
- Ebook organization. I am a re-reader of books.I want to be able to put all my ebooks on a device and have ease of navigation through them. Collections is okay and syncs well with Calibre (Sony one does) but a Folder system would be ideal as I could go two tier in my sorting.
- A mixture of buttons and touch screen. I find buttons preferable for turning pages.
- Adjustments to the way books are viewed. Such as font adjustments, margin and line spacing, a status bar on either top or bottom of a book showing time and battery indicator. All of these can be choices in the preferences so people who don't want a status bar don't have to have one.
- While reading I would like to see a thin scroll bar at the bottom that indicates at a glance how far along in a book you are, this would also be handy with a touch screen for jumping to an area of the book by running a finger along scroll bar.
- Home page which includes recently read as well as recently added books. Home page should have customization in the preferences for how to view things.
- I would love to see a lot more customization being able to be done to a home page and how things are displayed than I have seen in the most popular ebook readers.
That list is on top of what all e-ink readers currently offer at this time.