[delphin]

You should check out the two promising new readers from Barnes and Nobel and Kobo - the Kobo Touch, and the Nook Simple Touch, both of which have 6 inch eInk Pearl screens like the Kindle, and both of which support EPUB and have nice touch screen interfaces (unlike Kindle).

The Nook STR is an Android based device, which means that it has the potential for 3rd party software support. Because of this, the Nook will almost certainly eventually have much more sophisticated capabilities than either the present Kindle 3 or the new Kobo, both of which use proprietary Linux firmware, and are supported only by occasional updates to fix bugs, by their respective manufactures (and almost never to add major new features)

Unfortunately, from many reports here on this forum, the Nooks are not supported outside the U.S. by B&N, so if your Nook ever had a problem, you would have to arrange for someone with a U.S. shipping address to return it for you for warranty service.

Kobo seems to have slightly better support outside the U.S., and a little better PDF handling than the Nook (though this could change in the future, after some of the better Android PDF Apps get tweaked up to run well on the Nook STR)