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Yeah, my wife falls in to the obstinate, stuck in the 20th century crowd. I keep trying to convince her to borrow my nook ST to try reading a book on, and I cajoled her in to reading one book on her ipad2. She refuses to read books through any electronic medium though. She likes her dead trees.
I can't convince her otherwise. Despite the plethora of free books we have in epub format. The access to the numerous classics that are free, and that a number of books she reads are actually cheaper in ebook format than in dead tree (not a lot of used books of the type she reads, or else they tend to be more expensive). Also there isn't the issue of the kids (2 and 4 and one a few weeks from being born) stealing her bookmark anymore if she used an ereader, and it is significantly smaller than a lot of the books she likes to read.
But, she likes her dead trees. Don't get me wrong, I love my dead trees too, but an ereader is just soooo much more portable, nice to have many books on it, so when I finish one I can dive right in to a new one without having to look over my bookshelves (which can be a problem if I am work at the time that I finish a book, without having planned ahead and brought the new one with me as well) and is soooo easy to just put down, attend to the kids or whatever else is interupting my reading and pick right back up, where as a book (especially since I don't use bookmarks) I have to flip back to my page and find my place on the page and start reading again. The roughly 150 odd books I had for free already (most above the board) as well as all of the free classics and that most of the books that come out new by the authors I like do tend to be a bit cheaper than the hardcover books (~$10 versus $13-16 through Amazon new) clinches it for me (still annoys me that ebook prices are relatively high, especially considering publisher costs, doubly especially for older books that are priced the same as the new paperback versions).
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