[Zoot]

Ok, I passed by the display kiosk in our local Borders last night and it was instantly obvious that I was going to have to take one home.

I'd heard about the reader in the past and was curious, but one look at that display and I was sold.

Having owned many other gadget type devices that never went anywhere, it will be interesting to see if the market for this (and similar) devices thrives or not.

The content available from the Sony-My-First-eBook-Store is quite disappointing at the moment (seems like a few hundred titles that show up over and over in different (inappropriate) categories), so hopefully this will improve.

So far reading on the device is completely effortless.

With the release of the eInk screen technology we've finally crossed the line from where reading on a device was a poorer experience than reading on paper to where the experience is equivalent and likely to get even better.

The page-turn screen effect starts out being annoying. I think this is because the text-interpreting part of your brain tries to track through the transition and gets completely lost. Once you learn that the stuff "between pages" is meaningless and you can safely pay no attention to it, the problem goes away.

Anyway, it's a very cool toy.

Z.