I understand what you're saying. I went from a 1150 as my main reader to a Sony also and had the very same complaints! If you added the way it feels and the basic ergonomics compared between the two the 1150 wins there too.

But the e-ink did have a better resolution and it was paid for so I thought it best to at least play with it a bit. Maybe read a couple books from manybooks and Baen so I could say I tried and then see about selling it.

Now? I'm glad I kept it. Adding a light myself to the side of it helped a lot for dim reading and the ability to change font sizes...hey, I'm not old (really!) it's just the air around here must have something in it that makes letters seem smaller than normal.

I still use the 1150 but not often and when I do use it after an extended absence it takes some getting used to screen-wise (though the navigation is STILL excellent and rekindles my ire at Sony for that stupid 10 item page...thingy). Now the 1150 mainly hold tech books that need to get searched and noted on and texts that get used in hostile areas (gotta love that case).

If you've given it a weeks worth of reading (and by "reading" I mean actually reading something you like and with some length to get a feel) and still can't stand it, by all means sell it! There is no sense in keeping something that just doesn't work for you. Plus this is one of the few purchases that you can probably get all your money back from on the resell market due to the demand. That's a good thing. If you don't like it you can get your money back. (Man, wish I could have done that for a couple of books I got.)

Because the bottom line seems to be no matter how bad the professional reviews are or how bad we dislike certain points of the reader or how hard it is to find them even in stores that carry them, they are still selling well. Probably because it does what it is supposed to do very well: present text for reading.

Hopefully the PRS-1000 will be called the "Sony e-tool" and include the extras so many want.

(How well is the e-reader selling in the Heartland? Three places carry them in town. None of the clerks knew what they were a couple months ago. Now they do. Sold out twice in one location, 4 times in the other two. Not bad for something that most people have never heard of and has no display or promotions.)