Http://www.kindleboards.com/ is a great site for people who have a kindle. In honor of "ebook day," can you tell us about another reader?

I generally recommend the iPhone/iPod Touch for the following reasons: * It's small. You can't stuff the Kindle or Sony Reader in your pocket. * It's cheap (or at least the smaller ones are).

At $180 for a refurbed 8-gig iPod Touch, that's less than half the price of the Kindle. * Through the various available applications, it reads lots of formats. Mobipocket (non-DRM only), Plucker, ePub, eReader, PDF (as long as it's small and mostly-text), Kindle, Shortcovers, app-books, etc.€”and other formats can be converted.

* It does a lot of useful things other than just read books. Play games, browse the web (on a surprisingly sophisticated browser for a device of that size), email, Twitter, LiveJournal (as long as tapping the thumb keys doesn't drive you crazy) instant-message...oh, and play music and movies (and, if an iPhone, make phone calls and take pictures). It's not without its drawbacks, however.

* Short battery life. Get used to the idea of charging it at least once a day. * Bright (albeit high-resolution and full-color) LCD screen.

Some people don't like staring at the glowy panel for long periods. Others have no problem with it. Decide for yourself which one you are.

* Smallness of screen. Some people feel strangely claustrophobic at the idea of reading a paragraph's worth of text at a time. Others don't even notice.

Decide for yourself which one you are. * Doesn't read DRM-locked Mobipocket format. Not so much of a concern for people just starting out, but if you've got a pre-existing DRM-crippled Mobipocket library, it may be a concern for you (unless it is legal in your area to crack the DRM for personal use).

Because it reads so many formats, there are a number of places where you can buy e-books for it. I tend to recommend Baen books, because they come unencumbered by any DRM, and you can download them directly into the phone using Stanza or Bookshelf.

There's a Sony reader--but it's not supposed to be as good as the Kindle and you have to download books through a Windows PC. No Macs.

The Sony Reader Digital Book is pretty cool. I think it looks better and is over all a slicker device, but as many know, the main issue is that it doesn't have wireless capabilities (the horror! ).

You actually have to plug the thing in. How 2005 is that! It does have access to a monstrous collection of public domain books, and it is a bit cheaper.

Sony has already threatened to add wireless when they can "do it right.

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