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I have neither gone back to pbooks nor left pbooks.
After 2.5 years of using my Sony 505, I still love -- actually prefer -- reading on it to reading pbooks. But I haven't left pbooks and gone wholly ebook. I only buy fiction in ebook form; all nonfiction I buy is in pbook. For every fiction book I buy, I probably buy 2 nonfiction books. But that ration of ebook-to-pbook gets skewed even further because there are certain fiction authors, like David Weber and L.E. Modesitt, Jr., who I buy only in pbook as well.
With the exception of authors I like to collect, I would buy more books in ebook form except for the lack of a universal DRM scheme, something that works like the scheme used for DVDs -- every DVD device can play every DVD, and for the inability of publishers to do an acceptable formatting job with nonfiction ebooks.
I enjoy reading on my Sony 505 enough that I wouldn't think of replacing it except that I want a larger screen that I can use to read my daily newspapers. I'd like to switch my print subscriptions to electronic ones sometime this year.
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