Just a postscript to this and only slightly diverting the thread - audio books.

Leeds City Libraries set up their excellent eBooks loan service a couple of years ago and the fact that its growing in size is an indicator of its popularity, and why shouldn't it be, you get to pick from thousands of eBooks and read them for free on your (most) eReader device for three weeks.

Now they have added an audio book service, download from a choice of audio books with permission to copy to an MP3 player (in WMA format) or burn to CD.

'tis good news if you are a Leeds citizen - or is it ?

Earlier this year they announced their plans for their "traditional" library services which included a "consolidation programme", ie they closed some small local branches and concentrated their resources into the larger ones, I have to say that I didn't notice any effect at all being that my local one is also one of their largest, but if the eBook and audio book download service increases in popularity as it seems to be doing then where will that leave the traditional library?

I admit with some embarrassment that I haven't visited my local library for some times now, am I part of a future problem ?

I have a Kindle. Anything you cant get on Amazon's Kindle book store you can get from elsewhere and simply email it to your unique kindle email address. The service converts it to Kindle format and sends it to your device. I have done this with ePub numerous times, although according to Amazon's guide it shouldn't work.

I have a Kindle. Anything you cant get on Amazon's Kindle book store you can get from elsewhere and simply email it to your unique kindle email address. The service converts it to Kindle format and sends it to your device. I have done this with ePub numerous times, although according to Amazon's guide it shouldn't work.

Is it with or without a keyboard? which ever way it is would you recommend that style? I'm not sure which one I'll be getting at the moment.

I have the one without the keyboard. A bit of a pain to type when you are making category folders but its only a problem then. I wouldn't spend the extra money for the keyboard, the free worldwide 3g does appeal to me though but I have wifi at home and work so I havent run into any problems yet.