Just curious if anyone here has personal experience with the Sony Reader? I purchased one for my wife for Xmas.

She flat loves it. Aside from the ability to read ebooks, it's an MP3 player and will also hold still pictures. While I will grant you it's got a smallish memory ( 100 MB ) it will accept Compact Flash cards up to 2 GB. I purchased a 1 GB card and down loaded all her MP3 music. I down loaded several books from Sony ebooks.

Because I purchased it before Xmas, it came with a $100 credit for the Sony ebooks site. She still has $50 to spend before the end of the month.

The one negative is it's a black and white screen. But for reading, that's probably a positive, not a negative. For displaying color pictures, they are good B&W copies (but still B&W). It doesn't seem to bother my wife any.

She travels 50% and just takes this on the plane. She can listen to music and read at the same time. So with her earphones she can just while away the travel hours and is no longer dependent upon radio stations when she drives or once she's at the hotel.

Sony Reader linky (http://products.sel.sony.com/pa/prs/reader_features.html)

I don't have one, but it definitely sounds useful. I could see myself getting one of these in the future. How do your wife like it?

FourBear,
She loves it. Gets to read without dragging a book anywhere. Plus it's also an MP3 player, which she also wanted. So she is extremely happy. She says it's great on the plane. Starts her music, then opens up a downloaded book and reads while listening to music. She feels it makes plane travel a lot nicer. As she travels fifty plus percent of the time, it was an excellent puchase.

I would love to get one of these. I am reading all the time and this would be awesome for me to have. Right now I download books from the local library but onto my PC. I think I just might see if I can find one of these to purchase.