After going round and round in the "What should I buy?" forum and getting lots of feedback from people I ended up going with the Sony PRS-505. I'm techie/geeky enough that I don't mind converting ebooks to work on the 505 and I just dig it's hardware.
So here I am saying hi and joining the club! I'm crazy anxious for my order to arrive so I'll be going through all the Sony Reader posts I can find.
~Shadowplay~