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File size isn't a problem. I regularly use an 80MB PDF on my Gen3 (a scanned Latin grammar book, in case you were wondering).
Be warned, though; PDFs which are scanned images (rather than text) will display very poorly on a 6" screen if the original page is significantly larger than that. The CyBook has a "pan and scan" mode which allow you to "zoom in" and "scroll around" the page. I'm not sure how the Sony handles it.
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oooh! Latin, huh? and a grammar book, huh? I recently found a book that details classical Arabic grammar in poetry form, instead of prose with examples. Absolutely interesting.
If I can zoom in then I'm fine, I tend to have to zoom in even when reading them on the desktop, particularly if they are handwritten manuscripts. (The amount of different calligraphic styles in Arabic do make scanning in vital and important, at least for me.)
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From what I've heard, unlike the PRS-505, the Cybook Gen3 does not support links inside PDF files. This may be a big negative for you, if much of your reading consists of PDFs.
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I suppose the question is whether such things are done in scanned Arabic PDFs.
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Links isn't much of an issue for me, particularly since most of the stuff I read is old text (hundreds of years pre-internet) anyway. The only time I tend to encounter links on the PDFs is if I get one of those
Wikipedia Books, which is overrun with links back to the various articles cited in the Wikipedia.
So far the Gen3 is very encouraging. Just need to shell out the extra 100 CHF. (I wonder if there are any serious objections?)
By the way, I've heard of an upcoming SONY Reader, which apparently targets the Kindle directly. (So perfectly glad the Kindle isn't available in the Emirates, last thing we need is serious DRM problems! Or monopolizers on ebooks, for that matter.)