At the rate apps are appearing for the Iphone, I think the Iphone would be my choice too.

http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/173/six-windows-netbooks-rated/

Unfortunately, I didn’t see any mention of the battery cell size mentioned. The battery longevity would really be affected by whether a 3 cell or 6 cell battery was used in the comparison. I have an MSI Wind with a 6 cell battery and 5.5 hours of battery time.

Me too! It’s less expensive than a lot of other smart phones (depending on who your cell phone carrier is, of course. Mine’s through Verizon and was $99.00 before discount.) It runs on Palm OS and it can run Mobipocket as well as display unsecured PDF files. It’s a touch screen and has a full keyboard as well. The screen IS small, but you can enlarge the type in most programs, and XandraG’s right – it doesn’t seem small when you’re reading. You can dim the backlight to save battery power too. And I find a dim backlight is easier on the eyes in the dark.

I’m not crazy about the Palm rendering of the PDFs, but they do in a pinch. My Ipod Touch does fine with ‘em, though, although I’d really like an app that could read them without having to swipe. I’d love to tap the screen and page down.

My Centro also lasts quite a long time on battery when I’m reading – I got at least six hours out of mine on a single battery charge.

I’m still leaning toward iPhone, but all my files are unsecure Acrobat. I played with SB Sarah’s Kindle and iPhone this weekend while visiting and much preferred the iPhone interface to read–much more intuitive.

you can convert but for 500 titles, it would be a bear.

There are ways to write DOS batch files to convert multiple books. Still time consuming, but not so manual…

I’ve only bothered to remove DRM from my unread mobi books, and Stanza was only unable to read a few of them – probably due to the compression format. There’s a way to expand it and turn it into HTML, which I’ll eventually get around to doing when I want to read those books. I’ll only be buying eReader from now on, unless Amazon decides to make a mobi reader for iPhone, so there are a few books I need to wait to buy because they’re mobi only.

If your mobi books are from most of the major ebook publishers, then they probably don’t have DRM, and you’ll most probably be just fine. If you want to check if they have DRM, it’s in the properties information on the Windows Mobipocket software.

Mobipocket Creator converts non-secure Adobe/rtf/html/word doc/ to non-secure Mobi with good conversion

My own ebook reader needs are met with a combination of both Palm OS pda and netbook. From my experience with continuing to use both in conjunction with each other, I’d like to add a few thoughts.

…>For the pda one additional plus is short booting up time. My pda is less than 10 seconds from picking it up to reading my book.

…>Everyone considering a netbook should definitely ask themselves this question: “Realistically, how often will the netbook be used away from any power source for any length of time?”. For myself, the answer was not often at all.

…>Both are excellent for organizing or keeping your ebook library organized.

…>One word for those concerned about their pda dying – Ebay.