Trouble being they're not that easy to offload because they're so niche, but selling it cheap to a mate is a better option than all the hassles of going through e-bay (and wondering if the person on the other end is a Nigerian criminal or afflicted with buyer's remorse).
I don't use it that much because of the struggle to get content onto it (the mobiperl library is supposed to work properly with all systems inc OS X, but have completely failed to have it load, therefore I have had to create books on my old XP box, which is a pain, and never lets me adjust the metadata properly). Somebody like you who actually does use Windows all the time would have better luck...
The screen flash does annoy some people, although quite a few seem to report that it stops bothering them after a while.
Meanwhile the open-systems software for convert-and-load to a Sony Portable Reader seems to actually run on the Mac, and allows me to change metadata and add books to collections.
Also, there are two minor points I will like about the Sony. 1) Sony's device defaults to 'sleep' instead of 'off' to shutting down, therefore you come back to your book instead of the library. I suspect this gives the Sony slightly less battery life than the Cybook, but I'd prefer to use it that way.
2) There's a certain amount more hackery on the Sony, and apparently it can offer a 'clock' -- a feature I got used to in PDA readers, and which is surprisingly useful in all those reading-while-waiting opportunities.
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I don't use it that much because of the struggle to get content onto it (the mobiperl library is supposed to work properly with all systems inc OS X, but have completely failed to have it load, therefore I have had to create books on my old XP box, which is a pain, and never lets me adjust the metadata properly). Somebody like you who actually does use Windows all the time would have better luck...
The screen flash does annoy some people, although quite a few seem to report that it stops bothering them after a while.
Meanwhile the open-systems software for convert-and-load to a Sony Portable Reader seems to actually run on the Mac, and allows me to change metadata and add books to collections.
Also, there are two minor points I will like about the Sony.
1) Sony's device defaults to 'sleep' instead of 'off' to shutting down, therefore you come back to your book instead of the library. I suspect this gives the Sony slightly less battery life than the Cybook, but I'd prefer to use it that way.
2) There's a certain amount more hackery on the Sony, and apparently it can offer a 'clock' -- a feature I got used to in PDA readers, and which is surprisingly useful in all those reading-while-waiting opportunities.