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When I got my first dedicated reader (Sony PRS505) I soon became dissatisfied because the size was just a little too large to conveniently carry around. I also didn’t like the slow page change and flashing of the eInk display, but that was not a deal breaker.
Then I got my jetBook, and I loved the fact that it would fit in my pocket, and carried it everywhere. I also liked the rapid, clean page changes. The firmware was not quite ready for prime time, but it remains a work in progress, and unlike the Sony seems to have a fairly rapid development cycle.
Then I dusted off my Nokia N800 that I had become disillusioned with several years ago, and experimented with FBReader. I soon learned that the newer version of that application largely addressed the issues that the “official” Maemo version had and it became a viable reader. Plus it was even more portable than my jetBook. Now I carry the N800 nearly everywhere and read the jetBook at home when there is adequate lighting. The only issue I have now is keeping them synchronized. Luckily both have a relatively robust word search capability, and while inconvenient, that is not a huge issue.
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