After about a year of deliberation, I purchased a Kindle in May.

Pro: Reads like paper and I love that I can electronically bookmark pages and preview books before I buy. I also love the fact that I don't have to drive the nearly 50 miles to the Barnes and Noble. It has got to be a much greener alternative. Less expensive to purchase, too.

I had a three book a week habit and storage space for books...well, I just kept having to stuff them in bags and when I had fifty pounds or so, I'd donate them to the local "friends of the library" fundraiser sale.

Con: My biggest complaint is that I can't read it in the swimming pool. I still have to buy a few trashy paperbacks for those days I'm floating around. Alot of texts and trade journals are not available in e-format yet. Magazine selections are (currently) limited.

I'm sure they are working on developing a color format that is not backlit, but right now it's not available. The pen & ink drawing formats are kind of classy, though.

Musings:
And on the "green" front, will outdated, used e-readers become a landfill/ environmental issue? Probably. Will the decreased use of paper products and fossil fuel offset the increased use of petroleum products to make the devices?? Or vice-versa?

On the economic front, loggers lose jobs due to decreased paper production. On the environmental front, there is a need for fewer pine plantations, which is both a good and a bad thing, imo. Since I am in the South, where pine plantations are an economic factor in more ways that just paper production, I still debate this. Pine plantations are also leased to hunters, who pay hunting license fees that support more diverse habitats and nongame species...I could go on and on.

I could even mention that fewer paper newspapers are becoming an issue in vet med and pet stores and pet groomers and boarding kennels as well as private homes, where used newspapers have been an industry standby for lining cages and paper training pets!

I don't want to get started on what's going on in the publishing industry.