I just got back from a local Borders, and I have to say, I'm really impressed! It took a couple of days, but the one I was going to check out was near where I work (DC) and it's been hot, I've been lazy, etc.
So went to one near home just a bit ago. Again, very impressive.
When I walked up to it, I thought to myself, "Darn, it's a display model with a fake screen." Then I remembered that it's supposed to look like paper. So I picked it up and pressed the Next Page button. It refreshed and turned the page. "Wow".
I popped in my SD card, it did it's refresh thing, and my books showed up. Cool.
I tried a couple of PDFs, not too great. They were all legal size, but only one looked good. That one has hideously large fonts when you view it on a normal computer screen, but the others weren't really legible. Needs to be XGA. Maybe next model? Fingers crossed. The other files were fine. I tried to resize the text, and that went well.
Well, I need to setup an alert on my rss feeds to (hopefully) catch the next sale. I've been waffling on the price, but $99 is a no-brainer. I considered the credit card thing, but the wife's not to keen on the idea, so I'm going to pass on that. But I want one. And this is after borrowing a Nokia N800 for today.
Is there no way to have it render without the large spaces around the edges? Just wondering. One of the things I like about Haali Reader on my Axim is that there is no wasted space.