I would recommend a Bookeen becuase it has been specifically designed to handle foreign langueges, non-english, books and it is not tied to one specific electronic book store. Thus as long as your pal can get to any book store at all the bookeen can read the books. I do not own a bookeen nor do I have any stock in the company that sells the reader, I gathered this information by speaking to owners of bookeen readers.
Personally I read on my company provided blackberry with several downloaded readers but that has the problem that it has a very small screen. If your pal can deal with the small screen then a smart phone will do the job.
If you want a larger screen go with the bookeen if you want to pay an extra low cost then use a smart phone, but be aware of the smart phones' problems.
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