SVN's branching capability is a joke compared to Git, and you'll wonder how you ever lived without easy branching once you get used to having it. This is important even if you're the only developer on the project.

That's the only advantage, though. I frankly don't understand the notion that SVN is easier to learn than git. Git has its tricky points (like the index), and its documentation and teaching material have only recently emerged from obscurity, but I think it's conceptually more straightforward, particularly because you can use it without having to set up a server. And you can back up your entire repository by just dragging your working directory to some backup media, so crazy experiments feel a lot less risky.

Start at github. And I learned mainly from the git screencast at Peepcode and the Randal Schwartz Google talk on git.

This book helps, too: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/

My point is merely that, if I were given the choice today to learn a version control system for my own use (like the poster), I would pick git because that seems to be where things are going. svn works well enough for me and I don't see any need to chase after the buzz, but sooner or later I too will probably get around to figuring out the ins and outs of git.

Either one is obviously a vast improvement over no version control.

(Mercurial is really good, too.)