Hi All,

Anyone got a Kindle? They look pretty cool, and also pretty pointless for me as they won't work in Aus But I love books and because I'm into weird stuff I'm always waiting 2 weeks for what I want to turn up in the post. D is currently reading books on her laptop, but that is because I had to kick her off the PC last night

There are heaps of ebook readers out there, any recommendations?

i have no recommendations b/c i find it very difficult to do much screen reading. my eyes always feel strained after a while. i'm all about the dead wood version...and i'm a writer, voracious reader and tech teacher

Me too, find it hard to page through documents too, nothing is as user friendly as a book But this kindle thing is suppose to be like reading paper.

I'm sulking because I've got 6 books in the mail at the moment and I'm just sitting here posting on the net....

There is a dedicated forum here:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/

Summary:

• there are not as many models as you might expect
• they either have small screens, or are pretty expensive
• they all have various design and usability problems
• the formats for e-books is a can of worms

I'd expect them to get usable in a year or two...

i know what you mean. I've got two piles of 7 books each sitting in my living room. eventually i'll get to all of them

have you checked out goodreads.com? you can post reviews there and read others' reviews. great stuff and rather addicting