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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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[scifantasy]

Downloading Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) solves all the problems--file conversion, organization, and you don't want to download straight to the reader anyway.

[ase]

Calibre is software; I'm looking at hardware and integration. Did you get an e-reader, or jump straight to tablets?

[scifantasy]

Definitely an e-reader; e-ink is so much better for reading than pixels.

Yes, Calibre is software, but my point was that with Calibre, conversion is easy, so worrying about formats and the like is misplaced.