[jscarbo]

I became an early adopter of e-books and e-readers when I moved from the US to Central America in 2000 and found it difficult and expensive to feed my reading habit and owned several early devices before Kindles came on the market in 2007. I've owned or used every model except the new 2013 Paperwhite.

Kindles aren't perfect and I've considered other e-ink devices from time to time but have never been convinced it was worth the effort to switch since I'm so heavily invested in the Amazon ecosystem. The biggest advantages to Kindles for me are the content selection and prices, and Amazon's well-deserved reputation for customer service and support.

I'm not a fan of the Kindle Fire tablets with their forked version on Android and restricted content availability. I bought an original Fire when they first came out but switched to a Nexus 7 when they came on the market a few months later. I still use it but bought a 9" Nook HD+ when B&N dropped the price a few months ago. I love the HD+ for videos, PDF's, magazines, etc., and the Kindle app works great on it for buying and reading Kindle books. Even though it also runs a forked version of Android, at least it has an SD card slot which makes it easy to root it or to run a dual boot system and switch back and forth to stock Android whenever I want. However, every book I've considered buying from the Nook Store has been cheaper from Amazon and B&N doesn't have a fraction of the number of daily and monthly promotions that Kindle has.