Kindle in UK, are you getting one? Which book do you want?

[DiscoStu]

NDA, but it will be soon...

Still I wonder what kind of books do you guys read/want to read on those?
Prose, technical, short long?

Are you doing market research or something?

[chef]

Ah, I specifically didn't want the sony vs kindle here, did I not make that clear in my original post (btw kindle can read PDF now, they both suck)..
Anyway let me rephrase the question, which book for the kindle or sony would you be willing to pay for?
I'm looking for something generic, not "LINQ in 24hrs" or "Real-time feed aggregation", I think..
Something on managing time and people better perhaps?

try

http://www.ebooks.com/
http://www.waterstones.com/waterston...e.do?ctx=10030
http://e-library.net/

and for ideas on what to get..

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...highlight=book
http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...hlight=reading
http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...hlight=reading

[chef]

Still I wonder what kind of books do you guys read/want to read on those?

I would want to be able to download anything I could walk into waterstones and buy, especially the various book charts books.

[SuperZ]

Something else to bugger the eyes up.

[Pogle]

I'm currently reading 'On the Origin of Species' on mine.
Not something I'd usually think of to read and a but chunky at over 800 pages, but I'm enjoying it on my e reader.

I believe John Lewis have a good deal on them at the mo

[darmstadt]

no, im buying the sony reader because:

- it feels more like a book after having played with it in the bookstore
- saves me lugging back 6 books everytime I go back to the uk
- planning on spending less time in uk and books in germany are expensive, downloadable books are far cheaper
- good range of titles to choose from
- i dont need "always on" internet connectivity (like the kindle has) as I'll mainly be reading it while on the underground or in a plane etc.
- sony reader copes with .pdf .rtf and .docs, the kindle doesnt unless you convert them, extra hassle

WHS. I have one of these (there is a new one coming out soon though) and its great. I started off downloading a load of free books (i.e Cory Doctorow) and have now started to buy them. English books in Germany are expensive but I've noticed a lot of the bookshops selling off English books recently between €2 and €5 which I've been snapping up. I have a load of technical PDFs to do with my job on it so that I can access them quickly, well quicker than powering my laptop up and they're easier to read than on my Palm or Clie. I think it was well worth the money. Once thing I like about it is that when I go out for my evening meal I can take it along and read it and it it doesn't make me look like a sad man reading abook in the boozer, much.