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Yes, we all have different requirements. As I said above, I am often away for a month or two at a time in a place where there is little Internet access and it would be difficult to load up with new books. Over that period I might want to read a couple of dozen books, and I don't necessarily want to have to choose which I am going to read before I go. Rather, I would like to have most of my library with me most of the time, just like I have most of my music with me in my (separate) mp3 player.
The Reader supports 4Gb memory sticks which would easily allow this, but the file system makes it really difficult to get to the book you want. Why bother supporting that much memory in hardware if it's not going to be of any practical use?
I also frequently am reading several books at the same time - maybe one work of fiction and two or three factual books. And then there is the issue of HTML and RSS support. I frequently find interesting articles on the Internet and save the page concerned in my Web folder, where for the major part they tend to remain unread at present. I'd like to be able to sync this stuff to the Reader so that I actually might have chance to look at it some time when I'm travelling.
These are not arcane requirments - they are for fundamental reading tasks and they would be simple to implement. I love the Reader hardware, but it's maddening that Sony cannot provide better firmware and software to support it.
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