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That (keeping track of my place in several books at once and eliminating 1/2 read books scattered throughout the house), and being able to actually READ those Gutenberg texts (who can read on a PC?), is the main reason I bought the Reader. It's my first such device, since for reading devices before now I was either a) unhappy with the price or b) unhappy with the display or c) both.
When I bought it, being able to stick in a memory expansion card was a big deal to me... but since I organize all my ebooks on the PC (like my music collection) and just copy on the ones I want to read or keep handy for reference, I haven't even come close to filling it yet... and I have 5 pages of books in it so far. Which brings up a question, actually - how much available memory does this thing have, really? The Connect software says around 90MB - I thought it was supposed to be closer to 64? I recall someone writing around here that content copied to the reader is compressed, so perhaps it's reporting "hypothetical space" based on assumptions about compression ratios rather than actual physical space free?
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