Thanks,
I've previously looked at Pocketbook 903 pro which would have e-ink and large screen and tried to compare it with Asus Eee Pad Transformer (which is on sale here).
I guess Asus/almost any tablet would have almost everything except sunlight tolerant screen. Battery time of 5-7 hours is much more than 50 mins I get from my old laptop... I could probably live with that just fine 99.9% of time.
I wonder if there are technical advances in LCD:s too? If I forget my dream of sitting in the sun while reading ebooks can I read comfortably in a shade (outside, under the apple tree

)? So far I've used ipad only under artificial lightning.