Hi all,

Can anyone recommend me an eBook reader that doesn't have DRM protections? I saw the Sony eBook reader in Waterstones a few weeks ago for £200 and fell in love with it. The problem for me though is the issue of purchasing eBooks.

I'm a cynic and deeply suspicious of our increasingly authoritarian government. With the National Identity Register, ContactPoint, the NHS Program for IT and the Interception Modernisation Program, it seems there is nothing that they don't want to know about us. For this reason I always buy books with cash. What you read says a lot about you and I don't want to give the government this kind of information.

I therefore wouldn't want to have to buy eBooks with my credit card and thus leave a record of what I'd been reading. Is there an eBook reader that enables you to view eBooks obtained through file-sharing?

I have been looking for the same thing, i found this little matrix detailing current readers:
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix

I use QReader on my n95 - it only reads text documents (.txt) but it's easy enough to convert files to that format (well rtf, doc and pdf ones anyway). It should work on any phone with the symbian OS. I think it was uBook I was using on the windows mobile based devices, that opens a few more filetypes but it's been a while since I used it.

If you end up with a load of .lit files I recommend Amber Lit Converter (http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html) to convert those to text files - kudos for the slightly dodgy url. Sorry the b3ta newsletter arrived half an hour ago and it's still affecting me.

Try the Bebook (mybebook.com). It is pretty similar to the Sony without the Macrovision software they use.
Dabs.com sell it but if you want A4 PDF it may be best to wait for Plastic Logics amazing reader http://www.plasticlogic.com/product.html