After following the ebook market for some time (I'm a library consultant), I took advantage of the unfortunate liquidation of one of the Madison, WI Borders stores and bought a Kobo Reader for half price.
We are hosting a summit on ebooks in libraries next month--here's the project site I helped set up with articles and information for the participants:
https://sites.google.com/site/ebooks4wi/
Glad to join you all!
--jdeb