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I wouldn't say that it is revolutionary, but it looks like a pretty nice ereader to me. As someone else said, "They got a lot of things right." It has an SD Card, replaceable battery, supports user designed "screen savers." Of course, all these features were on the Kindle 1, so not revolutionary (although stupid on Amazon's part to discontinue these features).
The LendMe technology is about as revolutionary as Amazon's Text-To-Speech in that publishers can opt out, which greatly reduces it's revolutionary impact. Their FAQ on lending books also states that you can only lend a book out once, and a B&N mod reiterated that you can only lend a book one time only, but I'm still having a hard time believing this is true. If it is true then the LendMe feature is virtually worthless. If you can lend out a book, and then relend it once the 14 day lending period has expired, then this is a pretty cool feature. I'd even say revolutionary if most publishers support it.
Supporting Folders/Tags would have been a step in the right direction. Maybe not revolutionary, but a step in the right direction. For whatever reason, they decided not to take that step.
Supporting ePub is probably its biggest feature, but I wouldn't call this revolutionary. If their ebooks came in the ePub format and didn't contain DRM that would definately be revolutionary -- but that's a pipe dream.
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