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After a brief bout with the Nook Simple Touch that lasted a few days, I settled with the PRS-T1 as my first e-reader, after much research into all options.
My reasoning was simple: for the money, this model has the best features available. It does something I consider basic that the Nook lacked, the ability to choose what page to go to (ha!), and it is much better at PDFs, which is important to me.
Upon buying it, despite being overjoyed that the software worked as I wanted, I found the shiny bezel ludicrous. Sony is so obsessed with "sexy" Playstation-type aesthetic that they let it contradict the very point of an e-ink display. So much for the selling point of being able to read in the sun!
Simply, it's one of the stupidest design choices I've seen in any piece of hardware, ever. Not exaggerating. I would have taken it back to buy something else, but this was the only thing that did what I wanted for under $100.
My solution? I covered the entire bezel in black electrical tape. It actually works quite well -my father couldn't tell I did it until I told him so. I was able to cover the whole thing unlike a skin, which for $20 will still leave spots for light to reflect at you.
I even covered the button labels, and drew them over with a pen. I might recover it and do something nicer, though.
And by the way, I also made an angled hands-free stand for it out of a few legos.
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