[clewley]

We are forced, here in England, to buy our ebooks for the sony reader from Waterstones bookstore-web-site. I did buy two Cybook gen 3 readers but both went bad on me. I sent one of them back to Cybook and was told that the screen was broken and this is not covered by the guarantee. I refused to accept this because I am very gentle with my gadgets. The other ebook reader I threw into the garbage-can out of frustration. It cost me more money than I can affored but the horror of sending another one back for repair was too distressing for me to handle. The Sony e-reader is very well made so I've had no problems with it so far. What I miss is mobipocket. They let one download a purchased ebook as many times as one likes too, and they are much cheaper than Waterstones. Waterstons book store only let you download an ebook one time only, and with very little choise of e-books. One thing that I do miss on the Cybook is being able to increas the font to very large indeed which is Excellent for old eyes like mine. This is my problem. I want the Cybook gen3 but in the strong build of the Sony e-book reader. I am just too frighted to take another chance buying a Cybook gen 3 reader. I have read that with Sony's new e-book reader one can increase the font by five times, though it is not yet being sold here in Britain. I would buy one, when it arrives here, if Sony could bribe mobipocket into allowing them to downlowed its e-books onto the Sony e-book reader. Thank you all, Derek.