I happen to agree with you that the PDF reading thing of the PRS-500 and 505 are pitiful. I was greatly disappointed with that when I first got my 500. My beef with your post is that it makes it sound like this feature alone makes the reader useless. This is simply not true. With both the native tools and with libprs I have been able to enjoy a number of books, web sites, blogs, and RTF/Word documents on my reader. I’ve had it since they first came out and have probably read over 100 books on it. Is it perfect? No. Does it do a good job of presenting books to users? Yes! I highly recommend this to any book fan.