[DrZoidberg]

I have a very practical question on A4 e-book readers. My wife reads a lot of technical engineering material and the stuff she gets is most often PDF's formatted in A4 and if she opens them on my Sony Reader all the pictures and diagrams get messed up. She doesn't like reading on her laptop, and she reads too much for it to be practical to print everything on paper. So she wants an e-book reader to suit her needs more closely. Even though she'd prefer e-ink it's not the most critical factor.

The most important thing is the formats it can take. Which seems to be rule out Kindle DX. She won't be buying any books from their service. The Sony reader with a large screen isn't A4. It's still a bit small. Samsung Galaxy looks good. But we haven't tried it. Does anybody here know if it'll work? Ipad is another option, but Apple gives me the Big Brother shivers. But it seems to do what she wants. Does anybody know?