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Originally Posted by cs2501
I just deal with way too much information to not be able to search it. Lets put it this way, eye strain with search is better for me than no eye strain with no search.
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The Kindle is the only current ebook reader that does search across all your content, not just the current document. The downsides are its 6" screen and the fact that essentially its only format is MOBI, so you have to convert your PDFs to MOBI (Amazon will do this via e-mail, or you can use Windows MobiPocket Reader). Note that Amazon is likely to produce a larger screen "student" ebook reader next year, and it will presumably have full device search like the Kindle.
On the iLiad and the DR1000S, FBReader can search the current document but it can't bookmark. It supports MOBI and RTF. I'm not sure what the Java MobiPocket Reader can do on the iLiad and the DR1000S, but it may be able to search and bookmark. So converting (text) PDFs to MOBI may be advantageous here too.