I have owned an iLiad, the older model, for about a year and a half. The iLiad has numerous design mistakes: * It's very easy to push random buttons while rea

I have owned an iLiad, the older model, for about a year and a half. The iLiad has numerous design mistakes: * It's very easy to push random buttons while reading, getting off page. There's no easy way to go back; the go back button, with an odd icon, works only for some aspects of the GUI. * When disabling buttons, then the turn page button is also disabled. Very inconvenient. * There are useless buttons on the frame. For example, a software update button! And if you happen to accidentally push it--which is easy--, one goes for a 10 or 20 second detour until safely returning to whatever one was reading. * The battery lasts about 7 hours. Not bad, but for a book, one would want something like two days, or a week. * The machine itself is slow. Dead slow. One gets bored and loses ideas in the few seconds that it takes to open a new scratch pad to write in some notes. Passing pages is also noticeably slow. Resizing and panning within a page is dog slow. * Writing is not very nice. The trace has a different origin depending on whether one starts a trace or tries to continue one. Sometimes off by many pixels (10?). * For what it is, it's VERY expensive: about $700. For that price one gets two Asus EEE, which have better reading abilities and just about as much battery (the 1000 models). Despite all the above, the iLiad is still quite nice: reading on it is great. I only wish I could yell a few design concepts to their GUI engineers.