Overall, I'm thinking that B&N is close to hitting it out of the park with this one, in terms of a mass-market-targeted reading device/service/system. Of course, it depends a lot on how some of the promised features play out. It's the first design that's really tried to focus on the "...but with REAL books..." objections, with bookstore-ish browsing akin to the Borders Web site, and lending, and also take a sensible route around eInk's UI problems.
I had all but decided to stick with Sony when I upgrade. Now, I'm not so sure.
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