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After years of reading on computer screens and then a Clié, I've come to prefer scrolling text. I prefer content where a particular line isn't going to be the top or bottom of the page, unless it's a chapter start or end and a page/screenbreak has been added. I like being able to see lines of dialogue surrounded by the other lines, rather than the first or final line of an exchange being separated out onto a different page.
I also like being able to show a passage to a friend by putting the relevant paragraph at the top of the viewing area. Like being able to scroll to a section to take notes about it, not have a large paragraph split between pages.
The Sony Reader doesn't have this, and of course I don't have a problem not reading this way. But if I had my choice, I'd prefer scrolling text.
(Also don't like page numbers that don't relate to the viewscreen, like ePub & reflowed PDFs, and don't like # of pages being used to describe length of a book. But the latter's been mentioned, and the former is a tech issue, not specific to pages.)
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