Predator by Patricia Cornwell.

I just finished "Twilight", am going to get the second one - waited forever to get into the series... I also just started the Connor Grey detective series - just finished the first one "Unshapely Things", started the second one... "Unsightly Things" I think?

To whomever mentioned the Amber novels... I love those books, they do start out a little slow though... I just finished "Chapterhouse Dune" and those ran slow to start to me as well...

My MIL has a Kindle and I think I want one... I currently read on my phone with Motricity EReader - the same app used to run on my iPaq and my Palm Pilot, used to be called Peanut Press. I have 200 books on a memory card in my phone (Blackjack II) - convenient, but small screen... Kindle is bigger. :)

Shannon~I LOVE my Kindle! I'm currently on my 3rd book on it.

For those of you with e-readers and download the freebie books at places like Feedbooks or Mobile Reads: do you find a lot (and I mean a lot) of typos? Sometimes, I swear they've even typed in the wrong word as the word that is in the sentence doesn't make sense. I can see normal typos as not too much of a problem (mis-spaced words seems to be most common). I don't want to complain too much because let's face it, these are FREE books, but while reading Dracula I had a hard time and often thought the person who typed it all up was having a hard day at times.

Allison -I find a lot of typos in the free books even from Motricity, yes. Sometimes they read like they were translated from another language who didn't have a full grasp of English. :) I just saw the ad for the Kindle 2 - don't know if it is different enough to justify the higher price right now, might make the Kindle price come down a little! I might still have to have it, though...

Shannon~Unless you get a used one, you can't get the Kindle 1 any more. Amazon ran out of them last year and anyone ordering one was put on the waiting list for the Kindle 2 (which is what I have).

Allison - thanks! Good info to have! :)

The big difference between reading on a Kindle or a Sony reader is the quality of the display. It's not an LCD, it's eInk - just like paper (literally, it's kinda freaky). So, all the advantages of paper (no glare, won't make your eyes tired) and the disadvantages of paper (can't read in the dark). eInk is currently black and white only - so both the Reader and the Kindle display in grayscale only.

Didn't think about the B&W aspect. My EReader app for my phone & iPaq is color with adjustable font sizes, color and pattern choices, etc. Hmm...

Allison - do you ever have a hard time with the black and white screen on the Kindle?

Shannon~no, I don't have a problem with the Kindle screen. You can adjust the font size to about 8 different sizes (so I can go without my readers!!). I get a little glare depending on where I'm reading--but I believe you can get anti-glare screen protectors. You can also adjust the space between the lines which is nice.

Just finished Hunger by Allen Zadoff - a weight loss memoir. He was a 360 lb compulsive overeater who changed his life. Pretty powerful stuff.

I just finished Extremely Loud & Incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer (it was a m a z i n g. Sad, but amazing) and I'm starting on Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami ^^

Heh - why would she have problems with it? It's literally - just like paper. It's like asking if you have problem with a black and white page in a book. I'm mostly asking because I spent last week working the booth at Sony Open House for the Reader and I was surprised by how many people didn't like the fact that eInk isn't backlit. Books aren't backlit.

The Reader and the Kindle share the same technology - and the screen looks like a book page (the PRS-505 has 3 font sizes, the PRS-700 has 5 font sizes). It's not like I take a new paperback book home from Borders and look at it and say "wow, it's black and white and I can't read it in the dark, whatever shall I do??" It's a book, ya know.

(and I really couldn't ask semi-snarky questions last week due to the circumstances, so please forgive me, I was dying to ask all week)

I was actually surprised when I ordered my Kindle that one of the accessories was a booklight! I couldn't figure out why I'd need one, but now I see that if I wanted to read in the dark, I'd need a booklight just as if I were reading a book. I guess most people equate the ebook as the same thing as a cell phone or computer which both are lit.

Anyway, I'm about 1/3 of the way through Willa Cather's My Antonia and I really like it.

I read My Antonia in high school and loved it :)

Just started "What Einstein Told His Cook", which is a non-fic food science book. Yes, in case you weren't sure, I am a nerd.