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Welcome AMBene. Glad you posted a "get to know me" message.
You didn't say what age your children are. If those triplets are small, I'll bet you have a lot of demands on your time. Be sure to get all the kids turned on to books as soon as possible so that they will be able to entertain themselves.
I bought a Kindle and dearly love it. After handling a Sony PRS 505 at Borders, I recognize that I could be happy with it. Having the Whispernet was not a big part of the equation when I was shopping. For me, the content is the big deal -- and Amazon has more of the books that I read at better prices. I often download the books to my PC and push to the Kindle through the USB cable, which is exactly what I would have had to do with a Sony reader.
In my opinion, it's best to think about PDF as being akin to an image rather than a book/text format. Think about what happens if you photocopy a page printed on legal-size paper (8.5x14 inches) onto standard paper ... it gets reduced to 78% of the original size. A PDF document created for printing on 8.5x11 paper will be reduced to around 45% of the original to be displayed on the 6-inch eInk screen. Obviously, the ideal would be to get PDF files created for the smaller display. But, I don't know of any publishers who do that. Second best would be for the PDF display software to provide pan and zoom functions.
Pan and zoom would not be acceptable to me because it would interfere with the smooth reading. It might be a pragmatic solution for documentation and highly technical material that you don't really *READ* straight through. But it would totally ruin a mystery novel. So, in the absence of publishers who produce PDFs for the small screen, I'm avoiding them.
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