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I don't like reading on LCD screen. I do enough of it for work on the computer all day long anyway; by evening my eyes are just too tired to take any more of it.
And I've tried. I've adjusted colours - if I absolutely must read on the iPad, sepia background is the only one I can deal with at all - as well as brightness, but I need too much contrast to be able to read with the screen dimmed to anything approaching comfortable.
I read one footnote-heavy book on my iPad (footnote-heavy books weren't comfortable on the Kindle 3 I had at the time - not that they're comfortable on touchscreen readers either but a little bit more usable) and after that, in spite of having bought all four books in the series as ebooks already, I gave in and got the whole set as paperbacks as well, because as little as I like reading paper books these days (for the last two years, the ratio has been maybe 5 paper books vs 150 ebooks), it was still preferable to reading on my iPad 3.
It's not the weight (I read sitting in bed, with knees up and any reading material supported like that); it's not the battery life (I charge my iPad every 1-2 days anyway); it's the screen.
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