Folks,
Aside from the crummy firmware update fiasco, if you like your PRS-500 [or not], please leave a quick [or detailed] review on Amazon because this Sony beauty is getting torched by reviewers who drop they readers, they break, and then post bad reviews blaming Sony for their "accident".
I like my reader and I still use it almost daily.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...cm_rdp_product
Thanks,
Fabian.