This ^ 11.22.63 made my hands hurt so much I bought my K2 and haven't looked back.

Storage space and traveling, eBooks are (for me) the only way to go.

I didn't even know what a E-Reader was till I started hearing about Nooks! On Advice I went with them over Kindles By Mistake. I wanted something I could use with Public Library. 2nd mistake I didn't know my Library Didn't have any e-books! They do now cause of all the hell I raised :) Any way Both Nooks Broke out of box No Library use.. I gave up. That was in Oct 2010. Ordered my 1st K3 Jan 18th 2011.
1st was With both of us having Bad backs & spent a Month recovering from a move...
2nd when reading it became harder & harder for me to hold the book. Dropped a few on poor Katie got so she refused to sleep with me! 3nd I switched to audiobooks a 1 -2 years before I just plain Missed Reading!
In addition to the above reasons my Eyes are Enjoying the Larger print my Body enjoys Not having ALL that extra weight to hold!

Don't any of you miss that wonderful smell of musty old books?

Nope.

Nope as I still have Newspapers around, Don't read them..for the dogs :rofl:

As well as many of the reasons already given in this thread (principally storage space and portability), I also really appreciate the easy searchability of ebooks. I have a dreadful memory for names, so when a minor character reappears after a long absence I sometimes find it handy to do a quick search for earlier appearances of the name to remind myself who it is.

/JB

Hand arthritis and the need for adjustable font size, storage space and dust, carrying one little reader instead of two books everywhere I go, travelling (ditto but eight or nine books for a week away = they need their own bag), reading in my own font, search and collections features, borrowing library books without schlepping to the library, access to far more books than is available in paper in my town, Netgalley reading ... the list goes on.

Accessibility is the killer feature for me.

More like two books, assuming a portable hard drive. One if you don't have a tablet. (Who uses CDs and DVDs anymore?)

Paper books and I fell out - perhaps irrevocably. I mistreated them badly; threw them in to my bag, folded back the pages, I was even known to break a spine or two. In return, my books would spit out my bookmark so I lost my reading page, or even discard a page or two (my aforementioned breaking of spines may have contributed to that somewhat). Eventually, I gave up reading.

As an act of desperation, to get me in to reading again, someone kindly bought me an e-reader when Sony launched its range in the UK. I was hooked immediately and reading and I became bosom palls again.

Damn clever dogs.

All those arguments over indie v tradpub and not one person so far has said they got an ereader to read indie novels :eek:

Got my first one for holiday reading.

Well, not directly.
Read through the comments again and you'll see price mentioned a few times. Fanfic once or twice. Library ebooks. PD a lot. Avid readers get a lot more bang for their reading buck via digital, which justifies the expense of a reader.

(Besides, the prominent Indies show up in print often enough that it's not a big driver by itself. Not yet, anyway.)

The causality tends to run the other way--first you get into ebooks, then you discover all those new voices. It's the main reason the establishment is ticked at Amazon: all those cheap(er) books eating away at their second and third tier sellers. The Pattersons and Kings get their sales no matter what but for the rest...

Yep - and I said "access to far more books than is available in paper in my town".

The indies I read are sometimes available on paper, but by mail order only - why do that when I could buy instantly online?

Oh and - my only local paper bookshop is inaccessible.

I did it because of all the cool kids were doing it and I didn't want them to think I was a loser.