Hello DonnaIAm and welcome to MobileRead. Ralph Sir Edward is busy planning a get-together for the Texas folks to be held in/near Dallas sometime in early April. Read about it here -->
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35450 <-- and follow the thread as details unfold.
One good thing about attending a meet-up is that you'll get to see lots of different devices. There'll be Sonys, Kindles, Cybooks, Blackberries, PDAs, and probably more. One bad thing is that if you want this kind of in-person input before you buy, you've got to wait until April.
So read up! Ask questions! Join the discussions on what people like about (or don't like about) the readers they've purchased. We've no lack of opinions!