Do you have an ereader?

[chryss]

My partner got me a Nook when I went to the hospital to have surgery a month ago. While I'll always have paper books (and friends of mine run bookstores, which are lovely places and I want to do my share to keep them in business), there are things that I really like the Nook for:

• Ease of downloading samples. I'm often hearing about a good book, look it up on the B&N site, get a free sample, and read through 15-50 pages for free getting a good feel for it before buying.
• Small form factor. Very handy, easy to hold and to operate (I have the touch-screen B&W one).
• Very pleasant to use and easy on the eyes.
• Free ePub books and PDFs render reasonably well. Project Gutenberg ePub are very nice. PDFs can be a mess, but often are quite usable.

As another poster said, if you're outside the US, the Kindle is the better choice. I wanted to go with something that is a tiny bit more open to non-DRM books and a tiny bit less dominant market-wise, and the Nook's a nice device.

There are also other reasons to dislike ebook readers in general, such as the difficulty sharing books within one's family, copying/pasting quotes (both of these should be *easy* with electronic resources but the DRM is in the way), leafing forward/back a few pages, knowing how many pages are left in a chapter etc. Overall, I enjoy the experience as something that gets me to read in situations where I wouldn't have.

[Roadtrip]

I have a kindle... But now also have my iPad... With the Kindle app so rarely use the Kindle now. Also have the Nook app and the Overdrive app where I can borrow e-books from my iPad, which is available here I the US at certain libraries... But only on the Nook (for now.) Yes, iPad is much more expensive.

Shannon

[Catrin]

I can also borrow library books on my Sony Reader, which is quite nice.

[Caddy]

Have a nook, the original. The e-ink is a lot easier on my eyes for prolonged reading and it's very handy since I'm out of space in my condo.

[Bethany1]

The prices have really come down on e-readers. I have an old Nook with the bottom touchscreen. Not really impressed as it was slow to do everything and the battery life wasn't much.

I picked up a Kindle when the price went down and really like it but missed the touch screen aspect as I have an iPad. I like the e-ink format and found the new Nook to be a great buy. It's completely touch screen and super fast. Both Kindle and the new Nook fit into my purse for easy reading.

Out of curiosity I picked up the Pandigital Nova tablet (I have a thing for electronics) as it has the Android system and is great for backlighting but extremely overpriced. Since Android doesn't have a direct link to Amazon's Kindle I had to go around the back way and install it. If you truly need a tablet, there are better ones out there if you are willing to pay for them. Love my iPad.

[Irulan]

My partner got me a Nook when I went to the hospital to have surgery a month ago. While I'll always have paper books (and friends of mine run bookstores, which are lovely places and I want to do my share to keep them in business), there are things that I really like the Nook for:

• Ease of downloading samples. I'm often hearing about a good book, look it up on the B&N site, get a free sample, and read through 15-50 pages for free getting a good feel for it before buying.
• Small form factor. Very handy, easy to hold and to operate (I have the touch-screen B&W one).
• Very pleasant to use and easy on the eyes.
• Free ePub books and PDFs render reasonably well. Project Gutenberg ePub are very nice. PDFs can be a mess, but often are quite usable.

As another poster said, if you're outside the US, the Kindle is the better choice. I wanted to go with something that is a tiny bit more open to non-DRM books and a tiny bit less dominant market-wise, and the Nook's a nice device.

There are also other reasons to dislike ebook readers in general, such as the difficulty sharing books within one's family, copying/pasting quotes (both of these should be *easy* with electronic resources but the DRM is in the way), leafing forward/back a few pages, knowing how many pages are left in a chapter etc. Overall, I enjoy the experience as something that gets me to read in situations where I wouldn't have.

You can use Stanza software (free) to clean up or reformat PDFs.

[badger]

oh, I would LOVE an iPad, however, I don't have an extra $600 in my budget for anything at the moment. My neighbours gave their 4 year old in iPad for Xmas...