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I have a Kindle. I chose it because I really wanted search and dictionary lookup. None of the other readers at the time covered that to my satisfaction. I was very close to buying a Cybook but I was disappointed that it didn't let you search your books. When the Kindle came out and offered dictionary look up, book search and added Web & Wikipedia search on top of it, I was quite happy. At the time, I didn't see the wireless access as that big of a deal aside from what it added to the search functions but having used it for awhile now, I've gotten hooked on the instant gratification. The free sample chapters are great. Rather than pay for a book I may or may not end up enjoying, I get a sample and read it at my leisure on the Kindle. When I'm done, I can be reading the rest of the book within seconds. I just got another one for my husband. He commutes on the train and he loves that he can get another book right away even when he's in transit.
There are downsides, however. I don't like that Kindle books are so locked down. There are lots of other places to buy books and there is a hack that allows you to read DRM-ed Mobipocket books but I don't want to have to rely on it. There are also scripts that will strip the DRM off of the .azw books but who knows if Amazon will try to overcome that by changing the DRM a bit in later versions. I'm also not thrilled with the looks of the device but that's less important to me. Some people don't like the big buttons but I find it quite ergonomic. My husband disagrees but he's getting used to them. We'd also like folders for organizing our books. Sadly that's a feature few devices offer.
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