[teasonc]

The initial investment in e-reader hardware was unattractive until prices fell. When they moved out of niche status and into enough hands, I knew it was my turn to give them a try. I'm not the earliest adopter, but I'm often not the last, either. It was time.

The more I learn about the device, the more I play with it; the less different it is from a computer, and the fewer books I read per week. The ones I do manage to read, I enjoy much more than on the computer's generous LCD, because of the difference in display technology (eInk). The strong design of the e-reader means focused single-task use as a reader, and that helps me to gain more reading per time interval. Any introduced graphics (or even very difficult text passages I need to jockey back and forth between pages) makes it unpleasant, without additional solutions (a second e-reader loaded with the same book is my current solution there).

I hit saturation sooner, in some ways -- prior, I never hit saturation but I wasn't reading much. Now I read a lot, but I do find my saturation point where I don't want to read any more, for a while.

It's a good thing there is a saturation point. If there weren't, I think I'd wear myself out trying to reach it.

The best thing about getting a dedicated reader is I can switch off the desktop's display, unplug its USB keyboard and mouse, and let the machine idle. Often, for several days in that state.

That's new. That's valued. Greatly.