[pocoreader]

It has been about a month since I bought a Kindle. I bought it with the cover that has the light built into it. My impressions so far:

- Reading on my back in bed is much improved from paper books. Previously, turning the page meant I had to lift the book up; now I just press the button.

- I am once again looking up words in the dictionary. Previously I would have to get up, go downstairs to the office, choose a dictionary, and look up a word. Now I can look up words with a few clicks and do so all the time.

- Finding first/last/all appearances of characters, places, whatever is very simple, making it easier to keep track of plot complications, etc.

- Reading late at night, using that crafty pull-out light in the cover, does not disturb my wife.

- Glorious black and white (shades of grey?). The display is absolutely brilliant, as good or better than a paper book. Who needs color?

- Sending magazine articles to the Kindle is dead easy and I load it up on a regular basis from publications I could not afford in paper form.

- Free classic literature. Gutenberg Project and others are a great source of free works. I am reading Tale of Two Cities currently. Recently read a bunch of Ambrose Bierce. Have Jane Austen lined up for later in the summer.

- Easy to find and download books and previews and reviews of books by turning of the wireless and going to the Kindle Store.

- One slim volume holds all my reading: novels, non-fiction, magazine and newspaper articles. I have a job that allows me to read a lot of the time and pre-Kindle I hauled a magazine or two and two or three paper books with me, but not any more.

- Enjoyable checking in to MobiReads to see what other ebook and Kindle owners are up to.

In conclusion: I love my Kindle. I would recommend it to anyone who is a serious reader (serious being someone who reads a lot) unless that person wanted a game machine, color display, touch screen, etc. in which case probably an Ipad would be the way to go.