[lasherlaz]

Hello everyone,

I have decided that I will make the plunge into an e-reader. The ability to subscribe to newspapers and magazines has finally won me over.

However, I cannot decide between the Nook Color and the Kindle 3G.

Here is some information about me:

* I am a 2nd year law student. I use Westlaw often to download cases and secondary materials. These can be converted to .pdf or .doc format. I would love to able to read these on my device.

* Thompson West publishes some casebooks (for courses I will take) as ebooks. How does annotation work on the two devices?

* I subscribe to: the Economist, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. Does anyone here use an e-reader for their subscription? How does it work? How is the display? How is your reading experience?

* Novels. I do read them, but not as much as I would like as I am a student. However, general novel reading (particularly classics) is very important to me.

* The Bible and the dictionary. My fiance and I frequently get into debates about word meanings and Biblical happenings. Which device, in your opinion, provides products which would have the most overall utility for us to settle these debates? How do these large books work on the devices?

I am absolutely torn, at the moment. I love that the Kindle seems simple, however, it seems to have poor .pdf support and no ePub support. My university library uses ePub, and I imagine that I will use that often.

On the other hand, I love the Kindle's 3G support.

So...does anyone have any advice? As I said the important things to me are: 1.) periodicals, 2.) reading experience - for hours on end, and 3.) .pdf convertability (in this order: 3 > 2 > 1).

Web browsing, etc does not matter to me at all.

THANKS!