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I use a Tapwave Zodiac 2 as my primary reading device. It's a Palm OS PDA with a 320x480 color screen, 128MB or RAM, and two SD card slots. Aside from the standard Palm PIM functions, it plays MP3s, displays JPGs, plays videos, handles light word processing, spreadsheet, and database functions, and oh, yes - it plays games.
I have about 3,500 ebooks on the device. The majority are HTML converted for Plucker, a free, open source offline reader for Palm OS devices. Plucker supports color, hyperlinks, embedded images, text attributes, and custom fonts. Among other things, I have the complete Baen Free Library in Plucker format. I also have several hundred volumes in MobiPocket format, plus stuff in eReader, Adobe PDF, plain text, and Word doc and RTF formats.
It all works well, and the biggest drawback is having to remember which book is in which format displayed by which viewer. (And I get PDFs only if no other format is available for the work, since PDFs are problematic on small screens.)
I need color, and a device that does other things besides display ebooks, so my PDA serves the purpose and I'm not currently in the market for a dedicated reader.
The Sony Reader is a nice device, and the larger eInk screen makes for comfortable reading. If you don't mind the blink on screen refresh, can get the content you want to read in a form the reader can display, and don't require other functionality for the device, it may be a good choice.
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Dennis
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