Like a few others, I too received a Sony PRS-505 for Xmas. It was one of those accidental gifts.
While my wife and I were out shopping before Xmas, I discovered that a new Sony Style store had opened in our local mall. So while my wife finished some shopping, I decided to check out the new PRS-700 so as to see what all the fuss was about regarding to the screen.
After a very short time of using the -700, I decided that I really liked the touchscreen interface...but that screen. Yuck. If anything the photos posted previously didn't do justice to just how bad the -700 screen looked.
So where does the Xmas gift come into play? As I was playing (err......evaluating!) both PRS's, my better half shows up and asks what I was doing. So I explained.
She remembered back when I was originally looking at the -505 before I bought the cyBook and asked what I thought about the -505 now that I'd had the cyBook for 8 months. After I told her, she said let's buy the -505 as your Xmas gift. When I told her that I didn't need two readers, she simply said you can always sell one of them. (!)
So I now have two readers.
...and I'll note that my principle negative problem with the -505 page keys being hard to use (the ones on the right side) still exists, but using Jeff E.'s excellent prscustomizer to configure the right joypad for page turns makes a world of difference. If those keys were customizable way back when, who knows which reader I would have bought
...now to figure out what these 'collections' are all about.....
-Jeff