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I love reading on my Kindle. It’s the $69 ad-supported e-ink version. No apps to distract me. I don’t need a browser. It’s light, easy to read, and I’ve found myself reading a lot more since I have it.

Also, I live in Southern California and it turns out you can get all kinds of library cards (city libraries, Los Angeles County, Orange County, etc.) even if you don’t live in that exact city. Most are just looking for a valid CA driver’s license. So I have access to lots of options for free ebooks.

One complaint: I wish I could click the page turn button and have the top half of the page change immediately, wait two seconds, then change the bottom half. That way, you wouldn’t ever have to wait for a page turn: just click the button when you’re almost ready for the next page. Maybe I’ll write a blog post about this, to explain it better.

I’ve been putting off buying an e-reader for a couple of years now. While I could afford one, I’ve always had higher priority stuff to buy – right now, I’m looking at a Thinkpad to replace my aging laptop, and that’ll take a while to offset.

That said, my options aren’t that great. I don’t want to get a Kindle (yes, sometimes my ideology wins over pragmatism. But this was bad enough that I don’t want to support it. The Nook seems nice, but they don’t ship overseas. So I’m kind of left with Kobo, which I’d like to try before buying, and that seems impossible around here. Unfortunately, our shops are useless, they only have overpriced readers from unknown companies.

My wife and I each have a Kindle DX (the 3G model with keyboard).
Given the fact that I don’t like DRM at all I still prefer to buy the books on paper (as well as physical CDs) although space is becoming an issue.
On the e-side of books, there are enough public domain works (e.g. gutenberg.org, and recently “Rockets and people” from nasa.gov). Besides that.. xkcd.com/488/ still is good advice.

I read a lot of ebooks on my iPhone 4S. I prefer it to hardcopies because I’m usually reading in bed. The iBooks app is pretty cool. Often I’ll check manybooks.net or project Gutenberg and download ebooks directly to my iPhone. Unfortunately I can’t synchronize those books to my pc.

I usually read my ebooks on my computer because I don’t have a smartphone. I use old nokia dumbphone from around 2004. Project Gutenberg has been a great resource for free ebooks. You should go check it out.

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7 inch) and use the Kindle App. I think the 7 inch screen is perfect for reading because it’s more book sized. Plus I can read in the dark with it (which happens often because my wife tends to want to go to sleep before I’m finished reading). I agree with you though Luke, the Amazon ebook system is by far the best. Very seamless. I’ve been known to read a few chapters at work on a boring Friday afternoon from their cloud reader as well.

DRM is a good reason to use Amazon as theirs is the most trivial to break. Adobe always takes me a minute, Amazon is completely automated to strip the DRM and convert to a .mobi file. I also aim for DRM-free, just spent $120 in support of Tor/Forge dropping DRM.

Kindle Keyboard, the reduced internal memory and lack of an SD slot ensures that I will never buy one of their current models. That’s alongside my Xoom, also better, for me at least, than any of the new tablets. Then comes my Galaxy S3, the only new device that actually beat out older models on my scale, add global roaming and a QWERTY and this thing would be perfect. Never got much in to the Kindle PC app though, tried some of the free ones backbwhenbitbwas new and it didn’t impress, my Amazon library didn’t start to grow until I bought an actual Kindle.

Another Kindle fan here! I’ve never been a huge reader, but I’m suprised how much more I read since getting a Kindle.
A friend had a broken Kindle and asked if I wanted it to take apart/play with. After a little while I wondered if I could get it working, so I phoned Amazon and explained that I had been given a kindle that did not work. After 5 minutes of ‘hold the power switch for 15 sec”, Mrs Amazon simply stated that they would send me a new one for free!!

The next day I received a brand new kindle3g. With customer service like that, why would I consider going anywhere else?

I also use the Kindle app on my first gen ipad, android phone and computer.