[seajewel]

Absolutely, positively. I was really excited about my Reader before, but there were things that made me look towards switching to the Cybook. No more!

1. Before, I only bought .lit files and converted to .lrf, because I wanted to ensure my books would be readable across different devices. Now, I'm hopeful that devices will add support for .epub. Hopefully more vendors will add .epub books.

2. Before, I had to apply the Unicode Patch (and believe me, I was really thankful that it was there) but it had a few quirks that were a bit annoying, such as having to reset every time I wanted to add books to the device. Now, I've used the Universal Flasher to put my font of choice across-board (by placing one font file in the folder and editing the main.xml file to only use that font instead of 3 different ones, because there is a limit to how big the font files can be when flashing). No more resetting.

3. And it still does everything it ever did before. I don't really want or need to read pdfs, so that function doesnt' excite me quite as much, although i think it is a big deal for many people. But most of all, the battery life is good, the reading experience is superb, and my Reader is beautiful.

Thanks, Sony. I didn't even expect the promise of epub or pdf reflow coming to fruition.. but it did, and great job.

P.S. in retrospect, almost any kind of firmware release would have done just as well by me, since what I really needed was a method to unbrick my Reader (and trust me, I did need it while fiddling with different font files). Epub support is good for the future, but not very useful for me in the present.