Hello,

I'm currently looking into buying some eBook equipment, so I've been looking at the Kindle, the Nook etc.; what I'm concerned with is how well do diagrams come up on these things?

One of the pluses for me would be the ability to read a number of chess related articles (for example Dan Heisman's "Novice Nook") via PDF on one of these machines.

Can anyone shed any light onto the matter? Are they any good for this aspect?

Thanks.

wait for iPad

The only reason I'd buy a Kindle would be to read PDFs I have (and I believe there's a charge to transfer them - ridiculous).

I would never buy a book unless I owned it. 

Seems simple and fundamental, but with the Kindle, you don't own the book.  You can't sell it or give it to someone else, for instance, so forget the Kindle.  And Amazon has periodically revoked books when publishers changed their minds and erased them over the network from people's Kindles (I'm not making that up).

That said, I am not enthused about the iPad because it will not have nearly the ergonomics of the Kindle.  The Kindle - while I hate the Digital Restrictions Management crap - is a really nice platform to read on, in the sun, etc.  The iPad will not have that - Amazon has it all patented.

The iPad, however, will have the ability to play chess, since it's essentially a supersized iTouch (actually, that's exactly and all it is).  But...you won't be able to open a PDF and read a chess book and simultaneously have a chess board open because it has the stupid iTouch single-app-at-a-time OS.

Short answer - for the chess player, there really is not a perfect portable machine, other than a laptop.

I would not wait for the iPad. After having a Kindle for a year, I would never use a backlit screen for reading books. However, I have not tried reading a pdf on one. I'll try and track down one and give it a try though.

the new iphone os4 comes for the ipad as well and it will feature multitasking. (watch the new apple keynote)

can't wait to play chess on the ipad ...chilling on my sofa =)