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Originally Posted by MikeU
Thank you all for your replies. But I notice no one mentioned the iLiad, which I came across yesterday. Any thoughts? (And apologies for being such a novice around experts...)
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The iLiad's rather a different beast from the other other readers; it's more of a general-purpose "eInk tablet PC" than a dedicated reader. Unlike the other machines, it's "open architecture", meaning you can install pretty much any Linux application on it, and it has a touch-screen and WiFi, but it has certain limitations as a result of that - basically a rather short battery life (typically 10-15h of use, compared to the other readers which will run for weeks on a battery charge) and a long boot-up time (about 45s).
If you want a dedicated fiction reader, I'd go for the Sony or CyBook; if you need the ability to read A4/Letter PDFs, or are after a more general-purpose system, then the iLiad is certainly the one to get.