I am a long-time ebook reader going back to the Palm days. I got an eBookwise last year, loved it, still enjoy it for reading at home. But I don't like the lack of new releases for it, and most of them are 'secure' with the dumbest DRM scheme ever, where you cannot move them to a new device even if you buy it from them! Plus it is a bit bulky to carry around. So, while I am still using it at home, I have bought an iPod Touch to streamline my life a little and leave me with fewer devices to carry around
I am really enjoying reading on the iPod Touch and am so glad I bought it. I feel okay about buying new books from Fictionwise because you can, even on secure titles, still download an actual file for your computer as a back-up of your purchase.
For me, ebooks make better financial sense because I can't keep every paper book I want due to space issues (anyone who has ever moved will understand this!) So what I was doing when I wanted a new book was buying from the used bookstore, reading it and selling it back. I would recoup maybe a dollar or two per book, but that's it. I looked at it the same way you would pay $8 to see a movie. With ebooks I feel like I can keep them all so that is better value, and the ereader format has been around for long enough that I feel it is not a fly by night. And hey, even if they do all become unreadable in ten years, that is still ten years more use out of them I would get over a paperback!
So anyway, that's me
Hope to get some good recommendations from everyone at this forum about what's good to read!