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Wow.
tcv, I hope that you know you made me very, very sad. There are few things that I own, for which I paid $200+ that I do not expect to last for five years. If my Treo 650 starts to crap out in a month (the one year anniversary), I plan to send them a very annoying e.mail, as well as calling them every day for a month to protest their horrible product. My PalmPhone is on 24 hours a day, and has been since last November. I can buy a new battery--and from one thread on this forum, I know that I can open a Reader and get to the battery to replace it.
There's a constant debate here regarding DRM software & e-book price. I think that few people here on either side of those debates will sit idly by when their $350 device dies in a year. I could see *Every* owner of a Reader being very angry with SONY, and telling two friends, who tell two friends....
Anyway, I think that five years is a much better/attainable lifespan for a tech. device. And I hope that I am proven correct
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