Since I've gotten an ipod touch for Christmas I've been experimenting with ways to use it in my Chinese studies.

One great use I found is to read Chinese e-books: I can do it anywhere anytime and very easily look up words in pleco.

I found one great website to download free e-books: book.zi5.me
They have a very wide variety of books (from Lu Xun and Lao She to Mo Yan and San Mao and from Western Classics to 1984, Harry Potter and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

The only downside is that some books I'd like to read either only come in traditional characters or only in pdf. (e.g. I've been told 活着 is a great first book, but the two e-book versions are in traditional characters and the only simplified version is a pdf)

So now I want to share this side with my fellow skritterers and at the same time ask for other good e-book websites.

I've used the site before as well. A quick fix for the traditional characters issue (on Mac):
- download as a .txt file (or use a free converter from e-book to .txt)
- open in TextEdit
- select all text
- in the top left click "TextEdit" -> Services -> Convert to simplified

Save the file (and convert back to e-book if you must) then transfer to your device.

Yep, if you have a mac, that services menu (which only appears when chinese text is highlighted) is extremely useful.

Wow, you can say about Apple what you want but they really are great with languages!

Thank you very much for the suggestion.

Some googling now even found me a pdf to epub converter that I'll definitely try out. Does anyone of you have experience with how well that works?

I've only gone from ePub to txt, which I then use with Pleco's document reader, but that process is very easy and so far seems problem free (and done for free, online).