e-readers

[shalimarfire]

I am trying to determine which e-reader is best.  I've been looking at the specs for the nook and the kindle w/3G and wi-fi, and then looking at the off brands, and I am not sure which is the best.  The kindle w/3g and wi-fi is $60 cheaper than the nook, but with the nook there is guaranteed ability to surf the net.  Since most of my flist is avid

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YAY! and, This Will Be Long

[pelespen]

I've had a nook for seven months now (bought it when it was much, much more expensive than it is now, and I don't regret it). I am still madly in love with this device. I love the aesthetics of it over the Kindle, and it just seems much more flexible than the Kindle (you can expand its memory, replace the battery, even softroot it if you want, which I don't think you can do any of those with the Kindle, but I may be wrong.)
Ultimately, I think it just depends on what you're going to be buying, e-book wise. I chose the nook because it supports epub format, which seems to be the most common standard across the board at any non-Amazon e-book source. (the Kindle has its own format, although it apparently will read pdfs now, but pdfs are pretty much what you take if you have to - they're squirrely on all devices) I don't want to be tied to any one major bookseller for my device, especially since both Amazon and Barnes & Noble seem to keep any books you buy from them in an account on their server. I know this is a concern, because