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Originally Posted by Jaie
I can actually read books on my LG from Verizon. But, tiny tiny screen. And really annoying when you are trying to read say, Gibbon's Fall of Rome or something involved like that.
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Which is one major reason I don't want to try that on a phone.
On my PDA, I can use custom fonts and get a reasonable amount of text on screen.
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I've been researching this question for months and it seems to get more confusing sometimes  I know I'd like to be able to read PDFs, but it's not a deal breaker. I'd also like to be able to use the plucker format on Gutenberg, but again, not a deal breaker.
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PDFs are problematic on a Palm OS device. There is a superb open source PDF viewer called PalmPDF, which has handled everything I've thrown at it. But it doesn't handled DRMed PDFs, and most PDFs don't reflow well on small screens, so I get PDFs only when there is no other option.
Plucker requires either a Palm device, or there is a an open source viewer for Plucker documents on Windows Mobile called Vade Mecum.
If you have a browser that can handle the actual PG HTML without requiring conversion, no need for a Plucker file. Just grab the HTML.
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My big thing is, does it handle HTML well, and is it mandatory that I use the books offered by the manufacturer poor college student, can't invest $9.99 each time I want a Kindle book. Or, if I can use a book from anyplace, is it going to be simple to convert it to the format I need in order to install it on my reader. I'm not really that determined to have wifi, it simply would be easier to download books that way, and not have to move files from one electronic to the next. (I'm apparently that lazy )
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I can't tell you about mandatory texts without know which they are. But I'll bet that if they
are available in electronic form, it will be PDF.
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And of course, storage is a concern. I enjoy reading, otherwise I wouldn't have a personal book collection (I'm on librarything as Jaie if you ever get curious) and I don't want something that'll hold 4 books and then I need to delete in order to store more.
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Which means you really want something that can store books on an expansion card.
My device has two SD card slots, with a 2GB card in each. Card one has 3,210 Plucker documents occupying about 1.5GB. Card two has 335 Mobipocket documents taking 114MB. Then there is a miscellaneous assortment of files in PDF, text, RTF and Word format.
I like having a full library in my pocket.
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So, now to continue narrowing down I suppose. 
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I think so.
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Dennis