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I got a Kindle simply because once, on a flight from Heathrow to Schiphol with my brother, as soon as we were airborne he pulled out his Kindle and started reading. I thought, wow! I usually bought some paperback or another for long flights, dozed on short ones; this looked good to me. Back home in Oz, I bought one in an electronics shop here and mainly used it for PD books, some of which I made myself including some obscure Edgar Wallace which I posted in the e-book Library here. I have never registered it with Amazon. I still buy tree-books from time to time. I have two active Kindles, but prefer the newer one without the keyboard, with lighting. You can read during power blackouts, as we had here a while back when lightning hit some pole-top transformers.
When I told a sister about this, she got one. Solved a long running niggle with her spouse; she likes to read in bed, he can't get to sleep with the light on...
In my family, Kindle has spread by contact, like a disease.
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