That's interesting; I'll give that a go.
I often use my Sony Reader for reading scientific papers - the problem is that they are sometimes A5ish on A4, or have very small print that I want to zoom in on to read, causing all sorts of formatting and related issues. It will be interesting to see if that cracks the problem.
Reading them on the laptop solves the problem of-course and it was always clear that the Sony is designed and optimised for leisure reading - which it does really well.
G