I've just received my new iliad 2nd reader, it's case looks just the 2nd way...
However I still find the "shadow effect" quite obvious sometimes, especially in shell console or contentlister. the version information displayed in the contenlist is ER0140 but when I do "cat /proc/cpuinfo" in the console I find the displayed Hardware is "iRex Technologies ER0100 eReader", so I wonder if it is the real ER0140 version or not. I happened to see an irex blog claiming that iliad's case can be "updated" for just some extra fee...is this wired?
