I'm like tech_au in this regard. I agonized over a 500 hoping I'd get a gift certificate for my birthday back in mid-07. But I didn't so I kept agonizing over the thing. Then the 505 came out and I vowed that, if I didn't get a gift certificate for Christmas, I'd just buy the 505.
As it turned out I got some great looking (and much needed) shirts for Christmas. So, I walked into the Sony Style store here in Northern VA just after Christmas, ready to pay full price and discovered, to my delight, they had a bunch of 505 window displays on sale for 40% off so I grabbed it!
And, like tech_au, I read more now than before I got the 505. It is so convenient and portable, that I almost always have it at hand. I even read from it on the treadmill at the gym.
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