[ProDigit]

I'm owning the 505, but I guess for me it's a gadget to learn more about technology.
I was amazed by the 505,and still think it's a best buy,if you can create your own ebooks,or somehow have a lot of pdf's around.

The 505 does not display pdf's very well; this was one of the reasons I wanted another one.
I had been looking to the Iliad, where I just simply adore the idea of having a flipping bar over the click knobs on the reader.
The 700 doesn't say me much. I am not turned on by the page flipping through using (scratching, and wearing out)the touchscreen.
But the Iliad is pretty expensive, and the 700 has the same resolution as the 505.

Plastic logics reader would be interesting, though I will probably dislike the pageswaps, I love the idea of increased resolution, and larger screen.

We still need to know the price of these devices.

If there's one reason why I would want a Bebook, is because of it's linux.
I somewhere hope to be able to create a program, or discover something about the OS, no ordinary user knows.
Maybe how to turn on or off a clock, or perhaps how to migrate certain Linux games to a reader like this.
But honestly my lack in programming experience, the bad availability of the Bebook, and probably also financial lack to buy the device had been a great showstopper to me.

Perhaps unconsciously I satisfy myself saying I'd not learn more from a bebook or cybook, as I did from the PRS-505; thinking that the devices are nearly identical.

I so much wished,someone was capable to bring games like minesweeper, or solutaire; or perhaps a text based (like DOS or shell based) adventure game to the device, which we could edit and modify through a regular Linux distribution on the home PC..

Perhaps I'm asking too much, thinking that a Bebook will give me more possibilities.
I could be wrong.
I hope some sort of Linux based Open OS could be created that'll run on all systems (including the Sony, Bebook,Cybook, hanlin, Iliad,plastic reader, etc...)

That way it will be easy for programmers to create little programs of their own,or just port some extra feats/updates/programs into the reader, which a user could install and enjoy.

I mean,a program (non book based) Calendar would be nice, with user predefined background pictures.
- An agenda is another 'easy' thing to add in Linux.
- A clock
- A couple of games, like mentioned above (there are many more that do not need 3D acceleration cards to be played, eg: Sudoku (already added in Sony reader), 4 in a row, boardgames like chess, dammen, go, monopoly; perhaps even a simplified version of billiards, or pool; ...
- A software based dictionary (non book based)
- A simplified xls, doc,or ppt reader
- A minifox-like internet web browser to display htm/html
- ...

If it where possible to create such an OS,with these programs installed we probably need about 64-128MB of disk space at least,and need to make use of external SD cards to host our books and other data.