Hi JVIPER88, welcome to the Astak forum.
No one knows how to answer your question yet, the EZPro is too new. But perhaps some general information will help.
Of course, what accessories you get for anything depend on how you use the device, and that’s something else none of us really knows yet. Starting out we make assumptions and plan accordingly. Personally, I’ve used a variety of book readers, most have small, backlit screens. They are very portable but hard to read because I can’t get into the flow of the book: something always interrupts, like hard to read fonts or too many page turns.
When I first got a PRS500, later upgraded to a 505, I wanted a larger screen. At first, that six-inch screen seemed too small but over time it started to seem a bit too big: reading is good but it just isn’t very portable. I tried an iPod touch (3.5-inch screen) which is portable and decidedly bigger than the PDAs, but hard to read. The smaller font sizes on the Touch make me strain to see them while the big ones make me page constantly. I decided to give a five-inch reader a try in an attempt to hit the magic place between too big to carry easily and too small to read. All of this is by way of explaining my core, beginning assumptions: my purpose in getting an EZPro. There are other reasons, too, like replaceable batteries (we’ll see how that goes), ergonomics (the PRS300 looks to have an awkward placement of the paging keys, which, of course, are used constantly), and support for a good many eBook formats (we’ll see if they can actually bring eReader in, which will open a large library of older titles that are unlikely to be ported to ePub).
The product design of the PRS300 clearly reflects Sony’s opinion that the five-inch is primarily a portable book reader and BeBook seems to agree. They’re both shipping five-inch readers with a slip case when all their other readers come with covers. I’m thinking that a slip case really is more portable, but we’ll see. So a slip case is the first accessory I’m thinking of getting. Built NY makes a generic slip case called Built NY E-GPS-LKB Hoodie Portable GPS Case. It’s dimensions suggest it will fit the EZPro, but I would rather have a zippered enclosure but Built makes good quality slip cases. REI sells these so I plan to take my EZPro there and be sure it fits before I buy anything.
Some of the iPod accessories will also do for the EZPro. Consensus here seems to be that the EZPro battery will charge off of a standard USB port. The included charger is a superset of the standard and will charge it faster, but standard USB is not expected to harm the reader. The surge suppressor I use with my laptop has two, standard USB connections that work great with the iPod, and for travel I have a Scosche Revive with two standard USB ports that plugs into the “cigarette lighter” socket in the car.
I have some microfiber eyeglasses cleaning cloths to clean the screen, and I already have some book lights that should work with the EZPro. Time will tell. I use a light wedge with my 505 and it makes a significant difference in all low light situations as well as at night while my wife is trying to sleep. I hate having to try to start the search for a reading light all over. The light wedge works better with eBook readers than it does with pbooks, and I hope the company will make one for the EZPro, but time will tell. Their current models are too large for the EZPro. Judging from the photos of the EZPro, they would need a hinged clamshell design to attach it to the top of the EZPro with the wedge folding down over the screen; any other approach would cover the page controls.
There is no doubt that the PRS505 is a more mature design, and that the light wedge you can get for it is a great addition. Since Sony is discontinuing the 505 and its wedge light, you are pressured to decide now. On the other hand, there will probably be specialized accessories developed for all of these products, both those from Sony and Jenke. If it wasn’t such a tough decision about which one to get, most of us on this forum wouldn’t have acquired a collection of book readers. It seems that puzzling out these enigmas interests us.
