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I'm 100% ebooks, and have been for about 5 years. I read well over 50 books a year on my devices. I've read 5 in the last 10 days (been off work, sick!).
Mostly I use my Toshiba E830 and MS Reader, but recently I've also been using my Nokia phones (E62 and 6682) with MobiReader. I've discovered I really like the ability to set tthe text and backgroupnd colours in MobiReader ... I set them to black background, white text. This gives excelent contrast in all lighting conditions - bright sunlight fown to bedtime reading.
I have to admit, though, that I probably read more 'free' books than books I pay for. It makes no sense to me to pay the same or even a higher price for an electronic book compared to the paper version, plus some books are simply not officially available electronically.
I don't plan to buy a dedicated reader device. I carry a phone and/or my PDA everywhere with me, and just love the ability to instantly entertain myself, even if it's only while I wait 5 minutes for my coffee in Starbucks :-)
People complain about DRM on MSReader books, but that is easy to get around, although we are not allowed to mention the software that strips the DRM on this forum :-) PM me if you want to know about it :-) As far as I am concerned, I paid for the book, so I can read it any way I choose.
I've also found various software for converting books to different formats - this has been handy for getting books from MSReader to MobiPocket format, for instance. I know not everyone wants to mess around with that sort of thing, but I'm happy to tinker.
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