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I have a 300.
On the refresh issue, I just don't have a problem. Maybe it's a question of timing - for a while I would hit the page change button a fraction too soon, and not quite finish reading the page before the change occurred. But now that I have my timing down, I can hit the page change at the right time to let me finish reading the page, & move on to the next, without even noticing the page change.
On the size issue, I'm with Ed. I live in Chicago, so for 8 or 9 months of the year I'm wearing a jacket or windbreaker, so I have a pocket big enough for my 300, which I keep in a Tuff-Luf case. But it seems to me that a slightly smaller screen packaged in a form which put the various buttons on the side rather than the surface of the device would make a legitimately pocket sized reader possible.
There's another element in reading on a small screen which seems to me to have some relevance to the size issue. I think that the nature of the reading material makes a difference. I find it very easy to read novels and short stories on the 300. But nonfiction is a different matter. I think it's because if one is reading critically, the flow of the thought in the writing necessitates some back & forth reading - that is, one reads paragraph A, then paragraph B, which sometimes leads to a "lookback" to paragraph A - sometimes from way down the line in paragraph G a few pages later.
This is a general problem I have with ereading, such that I find I do most of my non-fiction reading on pbooks rather than ebooks. Of course, the largest screen size I've tried is 6 inches - it may not be as much of an issue on the larger models.
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