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Originally Posted by Katie1
TABLET! You can put the different FREE apps on it giving him the freedom to buy eBooks from any store!
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This. It's what my girlfriend and I both did, and we're thrilled with it. We both got Kobo Vox e-reader tablets. We went with Kobo because it's a dominant player in our region (Canada) and therefore had a huge selection of books, and because you can access Kobo's store on almost any device you can imagine (either through downloading an app, or through other means with a big of ingenuity). We went with a tablet-style e-reader, instead of an e-ink-style e-reader, because it enhanced the ability to run alternative e-reader applications, access more e-reader stores, and because it lets us read in the dark in bed if one of us goes to sleep and turns out the light before the other (better, in our experience, than an e-ink e-reader and a booklight does).
As a bonus you can do thinks like play music off the tablet as you read, if that's your thing (it is my girlfriend's, it's not mine), stream Netflix to it, play games, check email, etc. I love that with the tablet I can swap to the web browser to research something that the book inspires me to investigate, and the browsing experience on a tablet e-reader is far superior to an e-ink e-reader.
Almost any Android tablet will do if all you want to do is read books, and you can choose based on price, form factor, etc. From there, if you want to keep it simple, you just download the Kobo app, the Kindle app, etc. An iPad, or one of the forthcoming Windows 8 tablets, will probably work just as well but will cost more and offer less choice than an Android tablet (though I'm no Android fanboy, I'll almost certainly be getting a Win8 tablet when they come out). Once you've got a few e-book market apps on your tablet you can compare prices and selections and buy as appropriate. No technical know-how or hacking required.