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I was messing with a 600 a bit in a store a couple of days ago. Am I the only one who thinks the page-turning swipe is backwards? Great if you're reading manga, I suppose, but my natural motion for page-turning is right to left, because that's what you do with a physical book; I kept going backwards rather than forwards.
I've had my 505 for almost a year now, and I haven't regretted that choice for a moment. The 300 doesn't have an SD card slot. The 600 ... well, I don't get along with touch screens. Aside from the contrast/clarity issue (and looking at a 300 and 600 side by side, it was very noticeable) there's the problem that I tend to read while doing things that are bad for touch screens, like eating Cheetos.
We're now a two-505 household, since I wasn't about to turn loose of mine. Since the 505 isn't available regular retail in the US, we had to get the second one off eBay (which involved me coaching my better half in the fine art of bid sniping ... via cell phone from a parking lot in another city ... because I couldn't be home when the auction closed, and like an idiot, I'd left my netbook on my desk).
Out of the "big 3" ebook readers on the market (Sony, Kindle, Nook) I think the Sony is the best, and out of the 5"/6" Sony devices, I think the 505 is the best. Why Sony decided to discontinue it when people want it enough to pay, in some cases, more than MSRP on eBay to get one, boggles the imagination. Then again, this is Sony, whose marketing ranges from benignly neglectful to downright strange.
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