Im in a bit of a quandry as to which reader to buy, as there seems to be a large amount of variation out there.
My plan is to use the reader for the majority of my reading, in particular on holiday where currently most of my suitcase is taken up by books. As I read a lot of Sci-fi / Fantasy I want to make sure the reader supports books in the format - or failing that be able to convert to a suitable format easily. In particular i have a lot of .lit books already which would be nice to use.
The second thing i want to use my reader for is for reading PDF files. As a roleplaying gamer I often have to cart around lots of books for the games I play. I have most of these books in a pdf format so would like to use the reader for these and therefore save carrying all the rulebooks around. The issue is that some of those pdf files are simply scanned images. Im also not sure how important the level of grayscales will be for this.
I'm based in the UK and it would seem epub is becoming the preferred format for new books so I want to make sure I can either read them natively or easily convert them.
With regard to budget and devices - Ideally under £500 would be best although if a reader has the right features i might be able to stretch it. Also portability is important thus making the irex 1000 too big. I like the idea of a touch screen but that may just be the gadget freak in me
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I'm currently torn between the Irex iliad2 and the sony prs700 although im happy to consider anything else
Any Advice / recommendations are welcome
Grant