I owned a Sony 505 for 4 years and loved it. Simple, easy to use. The battery was going, so I bought the new PRS1. Hate it. Unless you enjoy LONG service calls to Columbia, you'll hate it too. Complicated, hard to sinc, hard to transfer old 505 files to it, hard to download books to, the internet is glitchy, and every question you got, their owner's manual doesn't cover. Hard, Hard, Hard! And Infuriating! (By the way, I later discovered that the battery replacement that Sony wants $100 for, you can get your neighborhood Batteries Plus store to order and install for about $40.) Soooo, I bought a new Kindle Fire, on the occasional $169 sale. FANTASTIC! Very usable, very slick, gorgeous screen. Downloading a book from the site literally takes 2-3 seconds. The only problem is the glare on the screen. I have a film on order that promises to fix that. Love it. Very slick!
Bill Brown, suspense novel writer at
http://billbrownwritesnovels.wordpress.com