Actually my eyesight is pretty ace. I find the Palm easier to read than a book - the lighting is never a problem - can read in bed without a light on or in the metro with everyone crowded round me (unlike the assholes who unfold a paper in your face). I can carry loads of book, just the same as a true ebook reader, but I can also do loads of other stuff with it and best of all it's not made by Sony, so it doesn't use proprietary crap.

I probably mentioned before, but I got a Sony "MP3" player for my 18th birthday (this would be 5½ years ago) that wouldn't actually play MP3s, only ATRAC3S. I hardly used the thing and sold it on eBay. Damn Sony.

• Battery (forget to charge it overnight and you're buggered half way through the next day)
• Glare, sometimes in daylight really difficult to read.
• Small screen (it is a small screen!)
• Eye strain, (less so on my older trusty IIIxe my first pda)
• even with cleartype of clearview of what ever still hurt my eyes after a long session resulting in headaches.

Ok, points taken, however battery is not a problem - I always carry the charger in my backpack just in case, glare has not been a problem for me so far and most of the time I'm still inside anyway, small-screen is not a problem and same would be said of eye-strain - I find it more comfortable to read the Palm than a book.

Plus no restrictions on what I can read on it.

Glad you like your electronic paper though.