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Don't know whether you went ahead and bought one or not but I bought a M96C about a month ago.
Overall it is useful for viewing PDF's but it's not plain sailing because there are real annoyances about the device that you have to work around.
The first problem that greets you is the contrast, for some reason when on automatic you just can't read the text in most apps so you need to manually adjust it darker. There's a very fine balance to getting text that you can read and losing all other detail to heavy smudgy looking graphics. I don't understand why this is necessary or such an issue on this device as I've had 2 different Kindles and a Kobo Touch running both the Kobo firmware and android and I've never had this issue. There no method to adjust contrast and it's never been necessary as text is always clear and graphics crisp.
Having got the contrast a bit darker then the next issue you find is that when apps startup they spend at least 10 seconds flashing different size black rectangles all over the screen in an attempt to induce epilepsy in the user. After that any major screen refreshes causes similar behaviour. Interestingly the stock reader doesn't do this so I suspect it's down to Android apps not working well with the eInk screen although my Kobo running Android apps doesn't suffer the same issue.
OK, so you get barely adequate contrast and your viewing PDF's in the stock reader and it's pretty usable as there is a nice zoom mode that cuts the borders and gives you a good view of the page. At this point the low resolution of the screen becomes apparent because smaller text is very blocky and can be difficult to read.
Overall it's usable with effort but it's far from the slick user experience that an Apple or Kindle user will be used to. I certainly wouldn't buy one for my wife even though I use it regularly myself.
Hope that helps.
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