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yeah, right, are you now trying to tell me that the starebook has the same functionality as the iLiad ?? Right, the screens are the same (oops, they're not, 6" vs. 8"), ok, but the functionality is the same (starebook can read pdf's, oops, it cannot but rather unformatted text instead), well, but the screens have the same resolution (oops again, it's only 800x600 for the starebook vs. 1024x768 for the iliad, not to mention the grayscales 16:4), so ... hmmm. Heee, but one thing the starebook can do better than the iLiad, it's only 8mm thick compared to 16mm, yes, that makes it a winner now.
I'm really sorry pals, but only sony is real competition here (although the screen sucks, and so does the pdf reader), while the starebook is just a joke (no pdf's, rather obscure ebook sources, and even more obscure marketing methods ["Defeat Sony, the world No. 1 ebook emerged"] ). The Starebook (and this is not arrogancy but just collecting facts) may have potential, too, but only with future functionality that is already present on the iLiad today.
If Suspense and the (in your impression) eternal 40 second boottime is a roadblock for you, well, that's ok, simply don't use iliad then. Be happy with a starebook and it's fantastic screen size to display content (maybe we should consider renaming it to starenotepad then because you perfectly can read content that has the size of notepads, but books ...)
You can call all the above arrogant, but I'm so fed up with this groaning and moaning going on here about a device that _IS_ good, and just because the choir of some people repeating the same BS over and over again, I will not. The iLiad is NOT: just a smaller laptop, a DRM content machine, coffee making machine, internet browser, open-source project. Its purpose is to display e-content, and it does that very well (at least you don't have to convert all your documents into jpgs to read it [well, at least the people around me don't exactly store documents and manuals as jpg's]
Cheers
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