An electronic book that works?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Wife got a Sony Reader for Christmas and is happy with it. Problem is that you can only use books from the Sony EReader site. That sucks. Other than that she likes it.

Are you sure that's correct? One of the plusses I've seen touted for the Sony Readers is their support of DRM-ed ePub format allowing purchases from third-party sites. And non-DRM ePub support should mean that it is possible to read public domain books from all the sites that provide them (Gutenberg, etc.).

But since I'm happy with my Kindle I haven't paid a lot of attention to the Sony Reader line of products (no wireless book purchasing means they don't meet my minimal requirements, though I'm open to moving away from Kindle).

ETA: This message board thread has people talking about getting books onto their Reader from non-Sony stores.