Um... there are ways to download text files to iPods. It's not as pretty as something like iSilo (which runs on the Palm OS and correctly displays HTML coding, including italics and pictures and fun stuff like that), but it should still be readable. Here's a piece of software to handle the conversion on Windows machines; this one's for Macs. Both of them are freeware.

(Not that I'm trying to tempt you or anything.... :-)