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You know, Liviu_5 mentioned Project Gutenberg. Isn't that reason enough for a Sony Reader. Think about it. More classic books than any library, and all "relatively easy" to put on a Sony Reader. If it really gets easy, that's a huge selling point that overcomes the $350 price tag already. As Liviu alludes to , remember how much money people used to spend on encyclopedia sets?!!!! And we're talking about a device that is actually practical to read all these great works of literature on (well, unfortunately just the English ones for now, I guess). If people could get their heads wrapped around that, surely it would have mainstream appeal. But has anyone in the mainstream press or from Sony played that up? No! Sony can't because it's not a seamless process yet, and it's not their store books. But the press should be talking it up, shouldn't they. Come to think of it, we should probably be talking it up more here at MobileRead too, but I guess we take it all for granted that everyone already knows that it's a big part of the e-book world already. Just imagine if everyone walking into a Borders thought of it as a device that could read Connect store books and for free the gigantic Gutenberg free library of classic works, plus other CCEL Christian books and Baen books, etc. all for free. All of a sudden $350 and a $50 credit doesn't sound very bad at all!
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