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[ase]

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance is available in electronic format, and I want something to read on the train, so I'm looking at ereaders. Are there overwhelming reasons to go with a Kindle Touch over a Nook Simple Touch? Available free / cheap books, breadth / depth of compatible file formats, convenience of downloading internet content, marginal non-reading bonus features? I'm leaning toward the Nook. I'm also eying the Sony ereader in reflexive anti-crowd attitude, but I'm not buying without trying.

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[cahn]

Ha, right -- somehow I neglected to mention that my chief use of my smart"phone" is reading my RSS feed :) (There are also apps for caching RSS feeds offline; if I'm not going to be around wifi for a while I usually do that.)

My vague impression -- either from Lifehacker or my own library? -- is that the OverDrive app (which I think is free?) is the only thing that handles the Adobe DRM (which is what my library uses, and I assume what the SF library uses) right now on Android -- but since my family has successfully indoctrinated me into iOS, I haven't done in-depth research on this.