hi millydog
The BeBook (=Hanlin v3) can be shipped to Australia and is probably available there also. Computer ebooks in PDF format can be tricky, you might want to read the review on my blog (see my signature). Some PDF computerbooks cannot open, crash or have too small print to read on a BeBook (or lets just say on any reader with 6 inch screen like sony, hanlin and cybook), but a majority are readable. I do not know how these ebooks do on an iliad or irex. According to
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix only Hanlin and iRex (iLiad) can read chm.