[Bookathon]

I have sold my sony 505 and in the process of selling kindle 1 after a lot of research on this forum and now I have astak ez reader.

I've been with astak ez reader for about a week purchased from Frys and could'nt be more happy. Positive points are.

Price is about right, mine cost me 239 after rebate. It comes with good and sturdy case, headphones, ac adaptor, wrist strap, usb cable and 2 gb sd card with 200 books on it in .pdb format. Now I can read my palm era books

Excellent screen readibility ( better than Kindle 2)
Better pdf support than sony or kindle (pdf reflow is coming this month)
Custom fonts ( I changed to versa)
Folder creation
long battery life ( mine battery came fully charged and after a week still full)
Multitude of format support.(mobi, word and txt are the best)
Supports 3 font face type, while sony and kindle do not support more than one

I noticed pagination is lot faster than sony prs 505, sd or int memory access speed is the same and page turning is at par with sony and kindle

I dont understand if this device which is based on linux can support folders why not kindle and sony support it.

I am happily reading newspapers and blogs with calibre in mobipocket format. Calibre has no support for it or any hanlin v3 clone, but you can transfer to hard disk after news are downloaded.

Now some negatives

usb 1.1( nowadays every other device is 2.0)
Inadequate .lit support
Does not support in device deletion of books