[rana]

Originally Posted by Alisa

Are there any other features that matter to you besides format support? For instance, dictionary lookup, content search, the ability to load your own fonts, content organization, or annotation.

Thanks for asking that ! I missed covering this earlier.

Dictionary lookup is not terribly important for me, but I would find ability to search the content to be quite useful. If absolutely necessary, I can live without content search, but would really prefer to have it.

Ability to load my own fonts would be VERY nice ... especially if people have tried many different fonts and there are some recommendations for what works well and what doesn't.

Content organization is also another really nice things to have ... but if I had to live without this, I could.

Annotation is not important for me.

To summarize, here are the list of features in rough order of priority (for me)

1. Content availability -- more the better
2. Support for a large number of formats (with PDF and Mobi support pretty high on the list)
3. Ability to "really own" the books I purchase and be able to read them on multiple devices (current and future generation)
4. How the books "look" on the device (this includes both how the display quality is, as well as the formatting of the contents)
5. General usability of the device -- button placements, stability of firmware, regular bug fixes etc.
6. Weight of the device
7. Cost
8. Ability to search contents
9. Battery Life
10. Size of the screen (bigger the better, upto about 8-10 inches)
11. Touch screen support (but not at the cost of clarity of display ... I understand none of the devices I am looking at right now will support this)
12. Ability to load customize the device (custom fonts fall under this, plus the more ways I can customize the device, the better)
13. MP3 playback

Things which are nice to have, but not very important

1. Dictionary lookup
2. Annotation
3. WiFi support
4. Ability to purchase content right from the device ... I am perfectly happy to hook up the device to the PC once a while to get content

Thanks again !