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After moving my technology books from one house to another and giving many outdated ones away to charity, I've decided that something has to give before my back does. I have also been thinking a lot about what I want to take to read on my next vacation. Do I take magazines, novels, geek books?

Dead tree tomes for geek topics really need to be in a digital book format. I've heard good reviews of the Kindle from Amazon, but I will not be tied down to their DRM. The other ereader that I have read about is from Sony and is too expensive for my taste (and Sony has a history of proprietaryness).

Then I saw the eSlick by Foxit (I am a fan of their software). I hope this device comes to market. It has the features I want at a price that is more reasonable than others. No DRM is huge as well. The downside to all e-ink displays is that currently they are only black and white. This is excellent for novels and reference material, but not so good for magazines that I like to read.

For me the sticking point is that we need more publishers to sell a PDF version of books at a reasonable price. I will not pay the same amount for a digital book that I will pay for the paper version. The resources needed for a digital version are a lot less, and the price needs to reflect that. Give me a good price and I will buy more books.

I hope Foxit can get publishers on board. Perhaps we need Foxit to open a digital book store?

via Gizmodo