Some initial impressions after a couple of days usage.
Positives
- Excellent display. Good contrast text despite the background being light-gray. Even for tiny fonts. E-ink is impressive.
- Organizing documents. Initially it looks kind of messy since everything is in the main folder, but you can create collections and stuff documents into those.
- Remembers last page you read. Pretty elementary but nice when you jump between documents.
- Checking the web for news and updates. When reading on my computer it's fairly easy to get distracted. Less so in this device.
- Full page content is a joy to read. I'm glad I bought the version with 9" display. Hopefully this will serve me well in the time to come. Thanks for all the recommendations getting an e-reader!
Negatives
- Slightly heavy. I guess the battery and display is part of the reason. A great deal lighter than a 500-page hardcover book though.
- Navigating pages in PDF (other than next page). Maybe it's me using it wrong, but activating "go to page" you get letters instead of numbers as default. You need to press ALT for each number. Kind of clunky when your trying to hold onto the device.
- Zoom handling of pdfs isn't particularly good. Certain pdfs become too small when fitted to width, even though the texts is crystal clear. No fit to height when in portrait mode.
Some images of the device: First one is showing full-page pdf against a hardcover book and a 20" widescreen monitor. Last one is showing 2-column pdf. The image quality doesn't represent the actual display. Text in last image is crystal-clear on the device.