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My personal favorite device is the Iliad. It is the perfect size for most Dover books (that's a publisher of cheap books on many subjects). Since I take a lot of math and science classes and since I have a bunch of Dover books on these topics, this is a big selling point. OCR is good at reading text right now, but it can't handle mathematical equations yet (as far as I know and I have looked around). As such I prefer the device that can display things in their native size page per page.
I also like the fact it has a touch screen. I hope Irex eventually releases enough information so you can code anything for the Iliad and not just readers. It would be pretty cool to have it double as a drawing/writing tablet for my laptop. I also thing there are a ton of other potential uses for a device with so many features, many things none of the other devices coming out could duplicate. If Irex changes their position on this (which would be wise, I think), then I might even code some things for it too.
Sony's device will probably be too limited and DRM-crippled. The Hanlin would be my second choice (it equals or exceed Sony in every area as best I see). However, none of the devices save the Iliad can display all the various ebook formats natively (such as PDFs).
-Drachasor
PS. I bought myself an 800 dollar duplexing scanner with a large ADF so that I can cut the binding off my books and get them in electric format. I've thought about offering to do that for other people, but as a small business I think I'd get sued--even though I think it falls within fair use, the legal precedent falls a bit on both sides of the issue.
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