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The iliad (or the DR1000) have a larger screen, which for a lot of PDF documents is a real benefit. Further advantages would be the scribbling features that allow you to mark and comment on documents. As the Sony 700 has a touch screen it may allow something similar here, (it's not available in the UK so I've only read the release notes briefly) .
Getting material onto the devices is easy, you can drag and drop. With the Iliad you can even plug in a usb stick and read/use documents from that which was very tempting for myself.
Any annotations you make (writing only works on pdfs in the DR1000 and I can't recall if that is the same in the iliad) have to be merged separately via a PC programme, otherwise they are only readable on the device that wrote them. But I do use that feature a lot.
Bluetooth isn't available for the iliad (but it does have an ethernet port) and is not due for the DR1000SW until probably early 2009. One version of the iliad has wifi and again the DR1000SW will have too. How useful it is I cannot say a I don't have it. Reading the iliad forum may give you a better idea, for instance I don't know whether you can treat it as a network drive. Likewise I'm not entirely sure whether you can use the iliad at the same time as you are connected via Wifi or it's ethernet port.
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