I bought one for the wife a while back and ended up reading a book on it, yeah they are great, really easy on the eyes.  As it happens I was given a Sony ebook reader as a present and I've been using that since.  The Sony reader is pretty much the same but has a touch screen.

 

 Is it just text that down loads, or are you able to down load pictures in the mags as well?

 Thanks for the reply jrk36, I prefer to read too. If I'm read to, I fall asleep by the second or third sentence no matter how good the story.

I'm waiting for the Kindle Fire which should be out in Aus very soon:

www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-Amazon-Tablet/dp/B0051VVOB2

They are great, got my old man one for xmas, download newspapers, mags anything. If I still lived in Sydney and spent half my life on the train, I would be all over it. The only shit thing is I know the old man will spill a beer or glass of red on his and break it this footy season......FACT......go the EELS>

I got one for Xmas the wi-fi version, read a few free books found it great as the screen is not as hard on the eyes as a monitor no glare.  You can also change the text size which is also good and it has a dictionary and high ligthing function .

Im reading Doony,s Unauthorized Technical guide to H-D 1936 -present Volume 1 atm not a bad read if you enjoy manafacturing and engine builds .

         What's this Doony stuff? Sounds like a top read !  Any leads where I can get the books from? Thanks blokes and scuse the barging in onya.

Here's a link to Amazon books

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004M18Z7S/ref=r_soa_w_d

may get you started looking.

Bought the wife one for Christmas and she loves it. The battery life is unreal- charged it Christmas day, used it absolutely heaps and the battery is still over 3/4 full!

I have a WiFi Kobe touch eReader , got it for Christmas. Have read a couple of books so far, works well. You can download PDF and ePub docs to it which means monochrome photos, drawings etc work as well as text. Best of all, you can source documents yourself and are not locked into any one source of books and mags (like you are with Apple and Kindle) . Power usage looks to be about 5-6 weeks on a charge with using the reader for 3-4 hours a day, no back light on. The Kobe also has a memory car slot to put extra memory in. At the moment I have thirty books of about 600 pages each loaded. Of the 2Gb memory supplied with the unit, 1Gb is used by the unit and going by the amount of space my books have taken, I would expect about 7-800 books to be able to be loaded before needing any expansion. None of the mags I read , nor newspapers, have a version available for ereaders, but that is hardley surprising as print media is pretty much stuck in the 18th century in this regard.
Yes you can browse the net but dont try YouTube or video, e-ink screens are too slow for that stuff (your phone can probably do better these days).
Now to convert my owner's manual and bikes service manuals (mechanical, electrical) into PDFs and they can come with me in the back pack on rides! yes, it is that good and easy to read. the advantage, you can search the mnauals for a certain text string and the ereader will show list which pages have that text in them. Saves you searching an entire manual for the spark plug gap settings or where the error code are or mean.

Readability is better than a lot of glossy mags and books as the screen is matt and low reflectivity. Too many mags these days I have to turn and twist a bit to stop over head lisgts and sun shine reflecting from the paper and making the text un readable. And you have the option of having black text on white, or white text on black. That may not sound like much of anything, but sometimes it is easier to read white text on black , especially if the old Mk1 eyeball is tired.

Now for HD to offer the manuals for your bike on an micro SD card instead of paper!

Hi guys!
I am reading with interest about these devices, I like the idea of an electronic workshop manual and at the same time an electronic parts manual. But the but question! can this device also be used as an external screen to a laptop. I am looking at all options for a small screen to be mounted on or there abouts my handlebars for monitoring Vtune runs. The more options and features that you can gain from any device in relation to motorcycles is a bonus.

cheers Paul

That's interesting.  I would presume any monitoring programs should be run from the tablet - as it is essentially a little laptop anyway. 

I would also presume it would use wifi to connect to whatever you're monitoring - like how you can use torque market.android.com/details to read from an OBDII scanner in cars.  If there's no app yet, surely someone would create one

Of course, there's prolly an easier way 

Cant use the ebooks as a small screen as they dont have any video input. Also the screen technology would make them pretty useless as update speed is about half to one second. A better solution is a 'reversing camera' screen if you need a 5-6" screen (they take VGA or video signals). better yet woul be to get a tablet such as the Samsung (if you application can run on android) or a HP/Dell if the app only runs on windows.