hi,

I'm wondering a little that there are no plans to support any eReaders. It would be another great opportunity to broaden KDEs userbase.

The first platform to develop one could be the based on OMAP36x since Nook Touch & Nook Touch Glow by Barnes & Nobles (OMAP3622 based) are quite similar to Nokias N900/N950/N9 (OMAP3630) and some progress was already made with the Nook Color ("estimated 5-7 million units sold to date for the original Nook Color.").
A brief history:

Eight weeks before Christmas in 2010, Barnes and Noble shook up its hardware portfolio and introduced the Nook Color. This went on to sell millions of units in the months leading up to the holidays and sold 1 million ebooks on Christmas Day alone.

Barnes and Noble’s entire product line and digital storefront is poised for tremendous growth and has had a helping hand in the form of Microsoft. A few months ago the company had invested close to 300 million dollars to create a new Nook division which will be bundled with all copies of Windows 8 for the global launch.

At a recent investors’ call last week, CEO William Lynch also let the cat out of the bag in terms of the bookstore’s ambition of expanding across Europe and Canada. He said the NOOK Bookstore will be available in 10 international markets by June 2013, bringing customers in new countries the opportunity to browse, shop, and enjoy the company’s massive collection of digital books, magazines, periodicals, and more. You can expect the UK as being the launching point to expand to Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands, and tons more!

• Video: Nook Color gets Hacked again - Now its MeeGo
• https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptation/Nook_Color
• http://wiki.meego.com/Nook_Color_Kernel_Sources
• http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Nook_Color

Since I am not a developer I can not estimate how much work needs to be done to fully port MER to Nook Simple but I think it would avoid the dilemma of having a hardware which is only available to developers and not widely available - plus ongoing hardware-cycles are not as tremendous on the eReader-market as they are on the Tablet-market (take Sonys new PRS-T2 for example which is quite similar to its predecessor; the current Nook eReaders will remain until next May - in contrary the Nook Color (followed by Nook Tablet) is already overtaken by yet another hardware generation (Nook HD) within 1 year).

How realistic is it to get a mer-port done in relation to time and effort?

If totally unrealistic it would be cool to have Plasma Active atop the Qt port to Android.