Didn't Sony make a "reader" like this one? what ever happened with that? I would consider something like this if it could read and SEARCH a pdf out of the d*mn box.

And what is so friggin hard about a search function!??!

Some useful links here such as reading feeds for free and what not.
http://kindlehacks.blogspot.com/

Unfortunately PDFs have to be be converted. I don't know about other people but for me that isn't an option. I need the table of contents and most of the PDF features. They never convert correctly and even if they did I wouldn't want to convert hundreds of PDF files one at a time to make sure they convert correctly.