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I bought my Opus on the basis of the features available at launch and with no consideration for any features being promised for future releases.
That said, I find I don't use it as much as I'd expected because having the thing crash rather interrupts the flow of reading. I have also since discovered that it is painfully slow handling moderately-complex ePub books (Pratchett's Unseen Academicals, for example) and having used it for a while now wish there were some simple way to over-ride the publisher's formatting choices. Yes, it's probably possible by modifying the ePub files before loading them, but it really shouldn't require this much effort.
Yes, I know some of this may be down to Adobe. I don't care. I didn't buy an Adobe product, I bought a Bookeen product, and if the Adobe SDK isn't fit for purpose then they shouldn't have used it for anything more than the DRM. More effort to do that? Really not my problem.
Reading the same book on my iPhone using Stanza loses the advantage of the e-ink display -- which I love -- but it's much faster and doesn't crash! And it lets me set the font.
I am dreading taking my Opus on vacation, having to get out a pin to reset the device while on an international flight is not something I look forward to...
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