Hmm, anyone any experience with ereaders besides kindle?

I like paper. It feels better in my hands, it's nice and big, dead trees are awesome, and of course, if you lose it on the bus it doesn't cost you much.

Kindle has some pretty annoying restrictions and terms of use. I'm shocked ppl actually put up with that stuff.

Hi, I was looking at the new Bebook Neo, but the damn thing costs 300 EUR and for North America only 300$. So I was wondering, since I am goint to USA in a couple of weeks, do you think it is possible to order the ereader from mybebook.com from USA and ship it to Slovenia :) I get a great reader for 300$ :)
The device ships from within Europe.

I would dive into the Kindle full speed if it had better PDF support. I am not into paying money for digital "books" I don't own...the pricing is ridiculous.

Of course, a digital edition of that book isn't of much use when the PC is broken...

like?
what i am worried about is the "steam problem" that amazon can lock me out and i will lose all books i purchased.
Books can survive ages. Back at home i have books which are over 100 years old. Heck. I got a book purchased in Australia for 5 bucks which is twice the age of the country.
and that's awesome :)
but the again. convenience of having digital books is just so big.

I am investigating this as well. Few things I discovered:
I brought a SD card with various ebooks in to Costco to try out the Aluratek Libre Pro... it's great! It's NOT eInk, it's TFT (LCD). You really have to see it to realize this is a good thing. Check out some of the YouTube videos for this, the screen looks really clear, you can see the page clearly even though they're waving it around in the videos. EDIT: I should mention it opened epub, non-DRMed PDF just fine. The ePub could be a little sluggish to open, but PDF was fairly quick - I think it opens it in chunks, so page turning won't be as quick.
The Jetbook Lite looks great too, but needs some work on the firmware so it doesn't crash hard with rechargeables.
The Sony Reader wouldn't read the same SD card - it may be more picky about how things are laid out on the card (I pulled it from my n800 at the store).
Google for ADEPT DRM and check out the I (heart) cabbages blog post, it's really interesting. Some readers even support Adobe DRM so I could take library books out.
Baen.com Free Library rocks! Even their non-free ones are cheap, like $5
iTunes has TONS of O'Reilly and MS Press books for about $5 too, with no DRM, so even if you don't have an iPod or iPhone you can extract the epub ( they even explain how, here )
I am sure I will have a reader before the summer, or at the latest, by camping season. I'm loving ebooks so far, and I have only been using non-dedicated readers so far.

I know very little about the Kindle or ebook DRM, but a quick Google suggests dark and sinister things.
http://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/21/kindlegate-confusion-abounds-regarding-kindle-download-policy/
http://www.crn.com/retail/216500680
I'm interested in what you said about adding books from other outlets. Does Amazon's software allow you to use non-Amazon books on the Kindle? That would be nice, though in the end, the problem still seems to be the prospect of switching to another vendor in the future. Saying that DRM is unavoidable doesn't really comfort me. The fact that most ebooks have it doesn't make it any less invasive.....
On a humorous note, I'm a bit entertained by this thread. GOG is certainly the last place I expected to find a defense of DRM .

Nope, there are alternatives. Baen is DRM free, O'Reilly (for computer tech stuff) is DRM-Free, Fictionwise has both DRMed and non... not including the copyright-free stuff you mentioned.

Hey, DRM is the devil's work. In fact conflicting DRMs is the biggest problem in e-book land. The trouble is the publishers are terrified of e-book readers taking off because it effectively eliminates the need for a large publisher. So they hide behind ineffective DRMs so they can negotiate with each e-book outlet. What's funny is that e-book pirates usually make their own versions often off scans that are often better than the publishers e-books (not condoning piracy).
I'm pretty sure they eliminated the book returning problem with a firmware update. Can't say for sure other than I've returned them no problem.
Here's a good article about converting files to read them on kindle
http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/2009/08/million-free-google-books-in-epub-for.html

honestly with Kindles DRM you quite simply don't really own the books, but rather rent them. And i could care less what publishers are afraid of when their solution hurts me, the PAYING customer

I own the books on my kindle just as much as I own the mp3s on my iPod. Amazon can't take the files away from me nor can they remove my ability to read them. Besides no one mandates where you have to buy your e-books from. I agree that it would be better if they would get rid of the DRM. But, since that isn't happening any time soon I have to weigh the convenience of being able to carry the 10 books I'm reading right now along with some blogs and a newspaper versus a restrictive DRM and some teething pains.
I'm not arguing that everyone should get an e-book reader. I'm also not arguing Kindle is the only one that's worthwhile. I'm just sharing what I've learned in actually using my Kindle.

Actually Amazon can (and has) remove books from your kindle remotely.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html