Reader arrived this morning safe and sound.
First impressions - WOW. This is my first look at an e-Ink display, and to say it is amazing doesn't do it justice. It really is just like looking at a paper book, and I can already tell my eyes are going to thank me. My previous reader was a PDA (Cingular 8125), and more recently a Motorola Q. The tiny backlit screens left me crying (literally) after several hours of reading. I would find my eyes watering like mad when doing any lengthy reading on these devices.
The metal casing and overall design of the Sony just screams quality. The display is remarkable as mentioned, and it has already exceeded what I thought it would be. Calibre synced with the reader and uploaded the books I had with no problems at all, and it only took a few hours to charge off the Macbook Pro's USB port. The real test will be reading a few books, but I can already tell it's going to be so much better than what I was doing.
Oh, and my other DRM books are in Palm format - can't remember the file extension. I bought them back when I had the old Handspring Visor PDA many years ago.
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