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I agree largely with ProfCrash & Ripplinger - as my eyesight deteriorates I treasure the ability to magnify/sharpen the text, and the instant gratification of downloading ebooks.
That said, I have a curious prejudice in what I'm comfortable reading as an ebook. For some reason, I can't accustom myself yet to reading poetry as an ebook [there aren't that many available yet anyways] - for some reason my brain insists on having a physical book in hand to fully appreciate the form & structure of the poetry. I have many poetry ebooks that I read on my 8.9" Fire HD or Kindle DX - so I can display the stanzas as written in a font size large enough to read - but it's not the same. Part of it is my tendency to make notes around the poem's margins, or underline words, which you can sort of do on a reader or tablet, but visually it's just not the same. It's as if when I read a poem, I also create my own version of meaning with my annotations - which I can't do with an ebook.
But, I did recently read 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' on my Fire - and the Dore engravings displayed magnificently.
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