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I like reading lying down, and I mean actually lying down... not just sitting up in bed or reclined. It's probably bad for my eyes but I like being completely relaxed when I read.
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That's how I read, and I find it's much better for my eyes. I can read for many hours on my side with no problem, but a short while reading sitting up really messes up my vision if my kindle or book is significantly lower than eye level. My vision actually gets blurry when I try to focus on something else after reading looking down.
I read on my Kindle in landscape mode with either the top or bottom sitting on my bed so that the text is precisely the way my eyes track left to right with no strain at all. And it's so much easier compared to holding a book trying to get it in the right position. I usually lean my Kindle against a piece of foam so I don't even have to hold it. I will probably get one of these
http://www.amazon.com/Tuff-Luv-Multi...=22CB3RZOQDEBV at some point or a book stand like this
http://www.amazon.com/Bookgem-Book-H...=22CB3RZOQDEBV to make it even easier.
I totally relate to what you wrote about the price of ebooks. I find it very frustrating also when I can buy a used book much cheaper than the paper version. I also have at least 500 paper books that I would really prefer to read on my Kindle.
Converting paper books to ebook format is a daunting task, however. The pages have to be scanned and then the hard part is converting the jpegs into text. If you leave them as jpegs and create a pdf from it, the text will probably be too small to read on a 6-inch ereader. There is OCR software that will help you convert it into text, but I think even the best OCR software will tend to create a significant amount of errors... so you have to go through and proofread and correct the whole thing. That ends up taking a lot of time and effort.
I haven't done it, in part because I'm nervous about such things, but I can see why one might want to look for an e-copy of a paper book one has already purchased. It's cost prohibitive to re-buy books you've already bought, and a daunting task to convert a large personal library yourself.