[yunti]

Thanks for the posts very helpful.

For the moment I'm using Calibre to organise my library.

I typically read on the ipad and I transfer books into ibooks using Calibre which is probably the best looking reader. From there I can annotate and take notes as needed as these sync to my iphone too. However like the notes solutions mentioned above for Kindle and Sony, these won't transfer out of the apple ecosystem unfortunately, which is the weakest thing with this setup.

I tend to purchase books from Kobo which for almost all the books I can find in ebook format seems to be about the cheapest (although many are exactly the same price as other book stores). I can remove the DRM via Calibre plugins and then read the ebook within ibooks. Most of the other reader software on the ipad doesn't support many features with imported books, but ibooks seems to work well and I can use dictionary, notes etc.. with imported books which is key.

The problem I've quickly come across in building an ebook library is, that although there is lots of content, there is still a huge %age of books that aren't in ebook format yet. This is a problem if you are looking for specific books rather than just things to read. I'm probably going to have to end up getting/building a book scanner.

Otherwise I'm pretty happy with the setup I have, but it's worrying that there is no standard for notes. Ideally the epub standard needs to be extended to include notes so that these can be shared across all devices.

One day......