Hello Kai -- Welcome to MobileRead and congratulations on your purchase.
While it is true that the Sony 505 supports PDF files, I've found that to be of little value. Earlier this year, I read two PDF books on the Sony. Both of those books were formatted for A-sized (US letter-sized) paper and were too small to read as-is on the Sony. Selecting the "increase font" option resulted in a readable, but not pleasant presentation. There were forced line breaks where the original text had the breaks, which meant that the resizing only did a partial re-flow. As I said, the result was readable, but just barely. Fortunately, these were very short books. I won't approach PDFs for the Sony again unless I can get ones that were created explicitly for the Sony's screen size.
With that said, I am glad to have my Sony 505 reader. I also have *lots* of books from Baen/Webscription loaded onto my reader. I've also bought 20+ Multi-format books from Fictionwise which I can read on the Sony. My hubby bought me the lighted cover (the one with the lightwedge in it) and I make sure to have a book queued up on the Sony whenever we're in the car at night. The lightwedge doesn't bother his eyes as much as a book light had. Otherwise, I'm still partial to my Kindle 1.
You've joined a very dynamic online community and will find lots of people here who own and love their Sony readers.
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