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  1. Matt Derrick

    Road worthy E-readers

    seeing how epub is about 90% of pirated books available, i'd say that's a pretty serious drawback. the calibre software doesn't work for removing the DRM on newer kindle formats. all these steps really defeat the purpose of making putting ebooks on the reader as simple as possible, which i'm...
  2. Matt Derrick

    Road worthy E-readers

    i've owned both the 1st edition nook and the nook color that came out after that, but i don't know anything about the newer ones. if i had to pick, i'd go with the kobo over the nook, but i'd do some research on the newer ones to see if they might be more worth it.
  3. Matt Derrick

    Road worthy E-readers

    i guess the only other thing worth mentioning is that large pdf files are going to load somewhat slowly, but that's basically true of almost all e-readers that i am aware of.
  4. Matt Derrick

    Road worthy E-readers

    well my advice would be to avoid kindle just because it's mostly limited to reading their proprietary formats, which usually have DRM in them, so it's not easy to copy books from or to the device without buying them on amazon. what you really need in addition to your list above: reads epub...