Okay, so my name is Icewyche (well, not really, but you know...) and I'm from Norfolk, VA, USA. I'm a late-blooming ballet dancer - didn't start until I was in my thirties and recently attended my first adult ballet intensive - tribal-fusion bellydancer, and former figure skater. I also write on occasion and read at every opportunity.
I used to read e-books on my old Palm Tungsten, but the tiny screen wasn't very easy on my eyes. My first dedicated e-book reader was a Kobo purchased in July, but it was a disaster; converting my personal files to ePubs or PDFs was a nuisance, and I'd only owned it for 11 days when it crashed irrevocably during a firmware upgrade. So I returned it (thank you, Borders) and got a red Sony PRS-600. I like the 600 - more compatible file formats, no proprietary anything (I'm looking at you, Kindle), and the touchscreen is great. But I was never quite satisfied with the contrast and the glare-prone screen, so I'm upgrading to a PRS-650 which should arrive next week. That's three e-readers in three months, which must be some kind of record.
But I plan on keeping the 650 for a long while.