We live in Canada and so I had to do a lot of research about the e-readers before I got one for hubby this year. I looked at the kindle and the kindle 3G which is available in our area, I looked at the Kobo from Chapters, the Sony e-readers and tried to find the pandigital ones. I ended up with the Sony touch because the others you have to have an account with "those" stores. The Sony you don't, you can download a book from anywhere. He can also make his own notes on it, it plays music, pictures etc. Now you CAN'T download a book to the ereader...you have to put it on your computer and then on to the reader. To me it doesn't seem to be a problem as the thing holds soooo many books, why would he want to pay extra just to be able to download it directly at that moment. Anyway...he likes it, guess that is all that matters :)

the Pandigital I had was very good I used it a long time till I got another brand and then I passed the PDN on to one of my family so they could use it and still are. They have several models however so that may be the situation. it should be fine as a basic ereader. I prefer them to have the epub format readers because there are so many epub sources including the library books. You may be able to add the kindle for android app to this one Kat but I really don't know since I have not seen one. When you get it let me know the actual model number and i will see what I can find out on it.

I want to add anyone that was thinking along the lines of the ipads or the bigger 10" tablets the deal they have on the Acer Iconia is absolutely awesome! That is a super tablet, it has Android 3.0 honeycomb running it which is the best OS for a tablet. It is in the same category as the xoom. It has a dual core processor which is the best you can get right now in these tablets. Acer ICONIA A500 16GB, Wi-Fi, 10.1in - Black REFURBISHED It is manufacturer refurbished that is why the price is cut so much. That would not bother me since it is done by the manufacturer.

it will connect to any wifi wireless network so if you have a wireless router in your home it will connect to it, it also comes with a usb cable so you can connect it directly to your pc if you need to use it to move stuff from the pc to the PDN, it takes a memory card also like the ones used in cameras, you can store a lot of books, pictures, videos etc on the sd card and then insert it into the PDN and use them from the card.(up 32gig size) It is extremely easy to use. If you do not have wireless at home it will use any wireless hotspots like those at libraries and starbucks etc. it does not use a cell phone type connection like the kindle does. I will put a link here to our discussions over on the computer forum for you, we do get a little technical in our discussions over there but don't let that scare you. Pandigital Novel (new thread) that post is the 2nd one we started the first one got so long it cut us off but I put a link to that one in this second one. You may look at youtube for videos and reviews, keep in mind the ones you see may be from the original version that came out which had some problems, they recalled all of them and put out a new version which is the one I have, it is very responsive and I have not had any problems with it. The black model is not near as good as the white one. Feel free to come over to the computer area and ask any questions, I only pop in here once in awhile but am over there daily. There have been some recent sales on it at Kohls also. this is the link to it at walgreens Pandigital Novel 7-inch Color Multimedia eReader several people have had success in printing out the walgreens ad and taking it to bed bath and beyond and asking for a price match then also using the bed bath and beyond 20% off coupon which brings it down considerably. I get the coupons in the mail but you can get one by going to their site and signing up, they will email you one.