Not that I dislike them, but I am located in Montana where we have limited choices of providers and none offer it. I do not own an iPhone so I cannot comment on that idea, and I do not expect to be buying one any time soon. No, I want an eReader for my tech books and personal reading and perhaps magazines and newspapers, and I wat it small, light, portable. I do not want all the bells and whistles it will offer since I have a perfect Sony Vaio with a 13" screen that bows the iPod out of the water for true computer ability and what I need it for. ![]() I believe I have decided to not get an iPad because of it's size and weight. With the iPad now out it added to the quantry. ![]() I just found this thread as I am looking to purchase an eReader. If technical books are what you primarily intend to read, something that supports EPUB as well as PDF and has a bigger screen might be a better choice) For me, the technical books are just a nice-to-have, albeit a nice-to-have that would be a dealbreaker if absent. (On the other hand, the ability to read O'Reilly's books is secondary for me I went with the kindle for purely subjective reasons - it seems slicker, the page turning feels nicer, and I feel like Amazon have a bigger range of fiction. Better searching, better annotating, bigger screen. I'd been using my iPhone to read their books prior to getting the kindle, and overall I'm much happier with reading them on the kindle. The mobi versions are definitely preferred though: you can highlight and add your own notes, which you can't do to PDFs.In landscape, the text size is close to what it would be on paper, so it's perfectly readable (if you don't mind pressing 'next page' a lot). The PDF versions are (even on the smaller screen of the Kindle 2) okay for me - the text is small in Portrait, but not unreadably small (although it couldn't get much smaller and still be comfortably readable) (but please note that my idea of "not unreadably small" seems to be smaller than most people's, so YMMV).Anything where O'Reilly offer a Mobi version will of course be fine.This was one of the big questions I had before getting my Kindle, and I didn't go ahead with getting the Kindle until I was able to check out how the books are handled. If nothing else it could be an effective stopgap until a clear winner emerges in the ereader market. If you have an iPhone (or another smartphone) I would give this a try before buying a dedicated ereader. Two of my favorites are: automatically sliding back to next "area" of a page when you get to the right edge and two "locks" - one that does not let you skip to the next or previous page without an extra drag and another that only allows vertical scrolling so you cannot accidentally move the page out of the text area. It is also very fast and has many built in features to offset the smaller screen size. Unlike the built in iPHone pdf reader most pdf apps are based on this one has its own rendering engine that makes each page load correctly. You can load any pdf into it very easily via wireless without having to deal with complex file transfers, etc. If you have an iPhone, you should really purchase it for a few dollars before committing to an ereader. I found a few that did exactly what I want. I felt the same way until I experimented with some of the ebook reader apps out there. I know you may think the iPhone could never match a true ereader. Instead, I decided to explore using my iPhone as an ebook reader for technical books. ![]() After looking at the choices out there I was not completely happy with any of the current readers. I have many programming books (including ones from O'Reily) and I am ready to replace them with an ereader of some kind.
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