[SandyBrooks]

I broke my jaw in three places recently (fainted and hit my chin on the sink, doh!) and my mom took off work for several days to help take care of me and watch my son while I was in surgery/recovering. While she was here I showed her my nook and she thought it was neat and said that she might need to get one. Anyway, I wanted to do something nice for her helping me out so much.

Now that the kindle is here with the improved screen and lighter weight/less clunky looking, better battery life, I was considering ordering one of those for her and preloading with a bunch of ebooks before I give it to her. She's not the most technically inclined, but uses a computer at work, so I'm sure I could email her ebooks in the future and she could drag and drop into the right folder (I'm assuming you can do that on the kindle as you can on the nook...though I use calibre for the most part). For buying books, I'm sure she'd have no problem buying from amazon.

My main concern about the kindle is that it doesn't accept epub. How well does conversion in calibre work from epub to mobi (or whatever the preferred format for kindle is)? I know calibre can convert it, but does it look decent or is the formatting often screwy? The other thing of course is that she did like the nook and that I know there is a bit of a wait time before I can get my hands on the kindle 3. I'd also put a 8gb sd card in the nook 'cause I don't think she even has an mp3 player and might enjoy having some extra space for music.

Thoughts anyone?

Sandy