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I looked into a Sony Reader a year before the Kindle was released and could get no-one to answer any questions other than, "No you cannot get books from a Mac." I almost bought one anyway and was prevaricating when the Kindle came out. All obstacles removed. I don't need the Kindle store, there are lots of others like Baen, feedbooks and manybooks that serve to supply me with non-drm books. If he Sony store sells only DRM books, then I won't bother to install it on my Mac, but so far I have seen at least one book that was free and I am willing to gamble that I lose my money on a free book. I now have over 1000 books in my Calibre library with about 10% having been read. I can convert almost any non-drm format to the Kindle and read it there. I have purchased a few DRM books from Amazon but those were either health books that I could not get in e-book form anywhere else or something I really wanted. Since over 90% of my books were not obtained through Amazon, I fail to see why people keep saying I am "locked into the Amazon store"? At this point I need the large font that comes on the Kindle. To read a paperback or magazine I need a magnifying glass some of the time. Sony is way behind the curve and has never understood its customer base. Remember when Sony products were fair traded? That means it was fair to the seller, but not to the buyer. I never bought fair trade products. I have a lot of Sony products, and really like them, but not their Reader.
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