I have an eco-reader (rebranded Hanlin). At the time I already had thousands of e-books in various formats all sorted into directories on my pc but was sick of reading on my pc. Initially I bought a netbook for reading but it didn't take long for me to discover that it was still too big and heavy. I decided on the hanlin because it reads a lot of formats (the thought of converting every book I wanted to read didn't appeal to me), it takes an SD card, it uses the directory structure you have on the card/put in the in-built memory (I really wasn't interested in recategorising and/or renaming thousands of books).
My reader hasn't been without it's problems, occassionally it needs to be reset or won't open a particular file but after the first one was stolen, I bought another one. It's fantastic for travelling, the battery lasts for weeks on end. I have found that I can't read in direct sunlight - the e-ink fades if direct sunlight is falling on it - but there isn't the glare you get from regular screens if you're just outside in indirect sunlight. I also like that it reflows PDF's.
That being said, it doesn't come with all of the bells and whistles many readers come with but I wasn't interested in connecting to the net, taking notes etc., I just wanted to read books (I do like the light that some kindles have though). You can listen to music but I don't, I think it may have text-to-speech but I'm not interested, one other thing I would like is the ability to delete books without hooking it/the card up to my pc.
My reader hasn't been without it's problems, occassionally it needs to be reset or won't open a particular file but after the first one was stolen, I bought another one. It's fantastic for travelling, the battery lasts for weeks on end. I have found that I can't read in direct sunlight - the e-ink fades if direct sunlight is falling on it - but there isn't the glare you get from regular screens if you're just outside in indirect sunlight. I also like that it reflows PDF's.
That being said, it doesn't come with all of the bells and whistles many readers come with but I wasn't interested in connecting to the net, taking notes etc., I just wanted to read books (I do like the light that some kindles have though). You can listen to music but I don't, I think it may have text-to-speech but I'm not interested, one other thing I would like is the ability to delete books without hooking it/the card up to my pc.