[dsvick]

I want to get an eReader this year and I think I have narrowed things down to either the nook or reader daily. Both seem to have a very similar feature set with the reader daily being a bit larger and having the touch screen.

I would mostly be using it for casual reading and some newspaper and magazines as well. The ability to get blogs/RSS feeds would be very nice as well, although a web browser is not anything important to me. Dictionary lookup, note taking, and search feature would also be important.

My questions/confusion is in the file formats and the DRM. As I understand it both will accept ePub books from any source as long as the source is not DRMd. So that means I can get an 'open' ePub book from a library, google books, project gutenberg, etc and read it on either reader - correct? It is when I purchase the books I need to be careful in that a book purchased from B&N most likely will not read on a Sony and vice-versa?

From researching it seems both will offer newspapers and magazines but neither have really specified how or how much yet. And it looks like Sony already offers RSS feeds which the nook does not (at least not yet).

Other than the above, the touch screen, and larger size is there anything else to justify the price difference between the two? Allowing for the Sony brand name too, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

I realize no one has one of these yet, but if anyone has any thoughts, insight, or points I may not have considered that would be great.

thanks
Dave