I started reading ebooks about 10 yrs ago, using the HP1100 slate laptop, you know the one with the screen that folds out of the way. I'm recently 51, so my brain free associates randomly on Sundays. Hardly any contriol. Then after getting into the ebook scene, I browsed around the net for a full time device and came upon the Cybook, Gen 1.That was cool, a Windows CE slate, weak as anything get out that was marketed by the clever Booken folks. Actually was pretty good, except it was too heavy, too clumsy so I sold it back into the world and got a ROcketbook offa eBay fro about $50.00 Talk about a deal, talk about a device. Did one thing and onoly one thing and did it well. Has a back lite, easy to convert stuff to the .rb format (takes a modicrum of techiness), and dates back to the Space 1999 days.It's goofy enough that you can brandish it at seminars and get a smile, why? Because it does the same the job as the new Sony/Ectaco/Cybook3/Kindle, with the style a flash of Star Trek, The Shatner Generation. It looks like what the we hoped the future would look like. However,
I will not turn down being the winner of a new generation ebook reader as the di-lithium crystal on my Rocketbook are dying out and the batteries are a pain to replace. I would not want a Kindle becasue the Amazon tie-in is loathsome, like a crack rock dipensing machine, I 'll be bying ebooks dropping 10 buck every few minutes, subscribing to the NYTimes or some other online mag thru Amazon's always on wi-fi. I've always liked Sony's products, used SOny palm pilots for years as ebook readers, very nice. Wouldn't mind the Cybook Gen 3, stay tru to my fave brandname. Altho Ectaco is a bizzarro brand name, Ech-Taco? WHo though that up, The Beach Boys? This is my Ectaco, sounds like something you don't wanna eat. ANd that is why I deserve the free ebook reader.