[CWatkinsNash]

• First of all, as others have said, finding MobileRead. I can honestly say this is the longest I've stuck it out at any forum. I love this place.
• Related to that - the reading challenge, which got me finally using Goodreads. I've gotten a lot out of GR, and I don't think I would have bothered had it not been for the challenge group.
• I enjoy reading more, though I didn't realize that was possible until it happened. I've always loved reading, but I find it more enjoyable on my ereader.
• Portable fanfiction and other online material - there are sites that I've spent time on over the years, but it's hard for me to do a lot of reading on the computer. I always wished I could get it in print form. Now, for many of these sites, I can download the content and plop it on my reader just like any other book, or use the Kindle web browser to view them directly. I never could have guessed this would work out so well for me.
• Discovering new authors and reading more genres - I never really knew that I liked dystopian and PA fiction until a freebie book taught me otherwise.
• Which brings me to... free books! I mean, who ever thought that oodles of books would be legally free??? I've known about Gutenberg for over a decade, but this puts it in a different context. There really is a difference between a text file and an ebook. Same content, completely different experience.