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Yeah, I'm with Emkay. I'm doing a social sciences masters. I read half a dozen papers a day from JSTOR and the like (A4 Pdf). No time to manually reformat. Once resizing and zooming became available, the Iliad suddenly became totally usable.; replaced course readers and printouts. Writing notes in the margins of the PDFs is a nice bonus too; I don't care that they aren't autorecognized, since that just added the functionality of paper printouts to the Iliad anyway. I wish the device was a LITTLE bigger, but its nice to be able to throw it into a bag without it taking up space. I guess A5 size overall would still be workable, but not an A5 screen with more crap around it.
It still isn't nearly as comfortable to use the Iliad as a single paper printout or a book, mainly because of the godawful contrast ratio (my biggest disappointment when I first flipped it on), and the slow page-flips. It's NOT like using a book since you can't rapidly find a random page by flipping through it...If white was really white, and if every screen refresh was more or less instant, ie you could run the pen along the little bar at the bottom and it would shuffle pages in real time, this thing would be as good as a book. Color is, I think, almost completely irrelevant for a reader--just give me a really white background!
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