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Originally Posted by physics
It also depends on the sort of books you need for your classes. I'm a physics graduate student, and I picked up a kindle dx hoping to get some of my reference books on it. (After two years of lugging around those 600+ page books, I was pretty desperate.) I've found that whatever amazon uses to convert math and physics books to .azw format doesn't handle the equations well at all. Subscripts/superscripts are screwed up, Greek letters aren't recognized properly (phi to psi, etc.), and so on. However, one thing it is really nice for is having copies of important journal papers, so they don't get lost on my desk, and I have that one we were talking about 6 months ago handy for when it comes up again in research meetings. (Although, note the letter beta is screwed up for pdf's compiled with pdf-latex, as most physics journals are. Not helpful if you're reading about the QCD beta function.) So, if you're grad school and mostly looking at papers, it might be useful for that alone.
So, if you're an English major, sure, an e-reader might be good. If you're looking to stop lugging around math and physics books, well, I'd advise not quite yet.
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I'm deciding between a Kindle DXG and an iPad 2, myself, for PDFs. I find that I can read many PDFs of journal articles surprisingly well on my Sony PRS-350, but some articles and scanned books definitely need to be read on a larger screen.