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Originally Posted by starrigger
Perhaps not. My main thought was to have options for a reader that could handle epub files, which is mostly what I use on my Sony. The newest one requires Win Mobile 5 or 6.
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An alternative, depending on how much you are looking at reading on the Axim, is to use
Calibre to convert from EPUB to Mobi format. Calibe is free, open source, and cross-platfom, available for Windows, Mac OS/X, and Linux. Calibre author Kovid Goyal is a MobileRead regular, and there's a MobileRead support conference for it.
I just used it to convert an ePub file I found here to Mobi so I could read it on my PDA, and it did the job nicely.
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Also, what I read about Win Mobile suggests that WM6 generally works a lot better, including more efficient battery usage and protection from "battery dead" conditions. Neither is essential; both would be nice.
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Agreed. My solution to "battery dead" avoidance is to top of my device overnight.
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It remains to be seen whether I'll discover that having a wireless device (my old one was not) leads me down the road of using that capability very much. IOW, I got a fancier toy than I expected. What will I do with it? 
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<shrug> You won't know till you've used it.
I technically can get online with the Zodiac, courtesy of a SanDisk Wifi SD card. But in practice, it's a PITA. The Zodiac won't do WPA security, only WEP. I wasn't about to downgrade my network to let it connect. So I connected a second Belkin router to my Linksys as an access point. The Linksys uses WPA, and most things connect to it. It handles network access and IP addresses. The Belkin router uses 12b bit WEP, with MAC address filtering on the router so that only the PDA and my desktop can connect to it. The Linksys treats the Belkin as a trusted host, and the Belkin forwards all traffic to it. So the PDA can be on using WEP when everything else is WPA, and when the PDA isn't connected, the Belkin is powered off. Not perfectly secure, but secure enough I don't lose sleep.
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Dennis