I was hoping to read many books, but after buying my mpx player I've realised the font used for showing the text made it a bit umcomfortable to read...
In Argentina some PDA's have the same price as the chipods (100 USD) and they even have Windows CE installed...they are PERFECT for reading e-books.. but they are a bit bigger than our lovely chipods :P
Here's the pic...anyway..maybe you might find some monochromatic PDA for much less in you country...
http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/im...3_4282.jpg&v=P