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Originally Posted by HarryT
If you want a secondary book reader, a PDA is - IMHO - a far better choice than an iPhone. With both Palm and Pocket PC devices one has a choice of a wide variety of book reading software which gives you access to all the popular formats, both DRM and DRM-free. I am very happily using MobiPocket Reader on my HTC Smartphone.
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you do realize that an HTC smartphone is the same thing the iPhone is?
a pda+phone combo. one of those things you most probably will ALWAYS have on you.
unless you want to point to the fact that the "standard-apps" like mobipocket, ms reader and eReader are not (yet?) available for the iPhone, and you're only able to read non-DRM books.
in this case you are right ... you'd have to crack those protected ebooks to convert to HTML and read on the iPhone.
i'd take the plunge, most of the books i read are unprotected and available in multiple formats. the only thing i would be hesitant to do would be to use the installer for the iPhone since it voids the warranty.
something you'd want to last for at least a year on a completely new product ... who knows what kind of bugs will show up after a few months of use.