What part of Canada are you from? If the Toronto meetup happens you can take a look at mine.
The cool: 400mhz processor (as opposed to the
Cybook gen3's 200mhz according to bookeen)
The notcool: Does not yet support epub.
At the very least they'll be adding epub and secure ereader formats with a firmware update within the quarter. And epub books are easy to convert to PDF with htmldoc.