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Given my druthers, the device--that is, a dedicated, or at least faithful with perhaps an occasionally wandering glance, device made for displaying primarily text and static images--would be an ebook, or an electronic book onibus-alacious compenditor.
Further, I refer to the documents that we avid simians view and turn the squiggles therein to abstract concepts as "digital texts." Besides providing clarity (if not concision), by utilising such a phrase, am removing the power that the publishing hegemony has over the reader as a subject by redefining the object in the relationship.
That is to say, I really do not care about the delivery system of the file or ideas therein, so I attempt to distance myself from referring to the electronic file as a 'book.' This is especially important when one considers that not every file is an actual novel or reference work, and could comprise merely a short story or whathaveyou.
There's quite a bit of whathaveyou flying about the interwebs these days.
@Yvan: a knife to read books? Thought that all the cellulose-devotees were big on preserving books. ;-)
Interesting to note that a word relating to reading can have so many connotations.
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