David Fletcher wants a touchscreen e-reader, but some models are only available in the U.S.

What do you recommend touchscreen ebook reader and some are U.S. models such as Kobo & Nook comes to the UK?
David Fletcher

At the moment there is only one mainstream touchscreen e-reader officially on sale in the UK, and that 's the Sony eReader Touch Edition. This is very nicely done and well done, and the screen is easy to read. The PRS-650 is relatively expensive at around ? 200 in a Sony store, but if you look around you can do it for less money.

As you know, provides the U.S. bookstore Barnes & Noble the Nook area of ??e-readers, and they have a rapidly growing market very popular. Some companies sell Nook e-reader in Great Britain. For example, offers the PurelyGadgets Nook (Touch Edition) Wi-Fi for ? 139.99. Like I wouldn 't recommend buying one sight unseen, although some YouTube videos give you a good idea of ??what it' s.

This year, Kobo has entered the fray with the Kobo eReader Touch, which appears to be a very polished product. Kobo has also launched an online bookstore in the UK, but it doesn't offer e-reader hardware.

I think Amazon are on the market this year with a touch screen version of the Kindle that the usual monochrome e-ink screen has. (E Ink Corp. is a company, and the E stands for electrophoresis. The newest and best e-ink screen Pearl is branded.) Amazon will also be reported to the tablet market plans with two touch-screen models, the color screens, and how the Nook enter Run Google 's Android operating system. Since these products have not been announced, it 's impossible to say whether or when they will be available in the UK. Nevertheless, I 'd expect that the two improved Kindles - one with a touch screen, one without - will appear here pretty quickly. *

There are around a few other touch-screen e-reader, including the iRiver Cover Story EB05, Pixelar MReader 6 and ViewSonic VEB625. All e-reader called previously 6in screens, with the exception of the Nook has a 7in LCD Touch. Larger touch screen e-reader with 9in screens include the Asus DR900 and Pixelar MReader 9th You can find more examples to sell on eBay again.

There are a few problems with sending e-reader international. The most obvious is the provision of ebooks in the local language. American English editions of books are usually different from British English version, and may also contain various copyrights. A less obvious problem is that local communications. Amazon 's Kindle Whispernet comes bundled with a phone connection, so that you can buy and download books directly, without using a PC. The 3G Nook does the same, and iRiver is the story of HD e-Reader, the over-the-air access to Google 's ebooks platform will launch in the U.S..

Both the Nook Touch and the Kobo eReader Touch have Wi-Fi, which can be used for downloading books, and there's also a Wi-Fi version of the Kindle 3 at a higher price. Sony doesn't offer Wi-Fi. All four e-readers, including the Sony eReader Touch Edition, have USB ports so you can transfer books from a PC.

You should like you to buy or download books to read, and ebook formats are thinking with you. The most common formats are EPUB, which is a standard, Mobipocket 's Mobi / PRC, Adobe' s Portable Document Format PDF, and TXT or plain text. Amazon has its own copy of MOBI version, which it calls AZW (Amazon Whispernet). The Kindle supports MOBI / PRC and TXT, EPUB but not supporting the other three. Both the Sony and Kobo e-Reader support Microsoft 's RTF Rich Text Format, but otherwise supports the Kobo ebook formats, and Sony have the least.

The abundance of ebook formats is not quite such a problem today as programs such as Calibre, an ebook organizer can convert between various formats. However, this may not always be possible if the files are DRM (Digital Rights Management) have limitations.

Right now, if you have a touchscreen e-reader, have the Sony PRS-650 is probably the one to go for. But even if neither the Nook or the e-Reader Kobo an official launch in the UK, I expect there will be a new touchscreen Kindle and maybe a few new Android-based tablets in the next six to 12 months. Alternatively, one might consider skipping the touch screen and buying the cheapest Kindle, currently ? 111, or one of the cheaper models from Sony, iRiver or Pixelar etc, then upgrade to a touchscreen e-reader later. So make sure you don 't lose your investment in books.

* Unfortunately Plastic Logic \ is 's wonderful QUE proReader, in 2010, unveiled before Apple' s iPad, never appear. This one came closest to matching Knight Ridder 's 1994 vision of a touch tablet newspaper readers. The purchase is the one I 'd, if I could.