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I only find ebooks good for Novels. I prefer paper even for novels. I'd been trying to read old out of print / out of copyright novels and trying to proof read all on laptop.
I found getting the PW2 good (now have PW3, Sony PRS350 and Kobo Aura H2O) and have bought some ebooks from Amazon and Smashwords when either unavailable or much cheaper.
I object to DRM and DMCA (fortunately I'm not in USA), I think both are unethical, immoral and not a valid way to enforce copyright.
People have also been buying books since books were invented just to have them for show. I'd not waste money on special editions etc, books are for reading or else it's just organic waste.
I'd like a 13" eInk digital paper for PDF manuals/datasheets/old magazines and a 10" eink for old scanned books. Very expensive. I do use an otherwise useless 10" windows LCD tablet for PDFs. I find my current laptop poor for PDF as it's only 1920 x 1080, really even 1200 is better. My old 2002 laptop with a 15.5" 1600 x 1200 non-glare LCD is the best device I have for PDFs! The HD Video and Widescreen has resulted in poorer laptops, you have to now pay THOUSANDS to get a laptop with a better screen than the old one I have from 2002.
Large format titles, text books, illustrated books and graphic novels are still best on paper.
Paper is not going away, nor are printed books any time soon. The ereader is complementary now to printed content, not anywhere near a replacement, though I've saved maybe 5,000 sheets of laser printout by proof reading on ereader and also larger web documents (pasted into LibreOffice Writer. SaveAs DOCX and Calibre to convert to AZW and epub).
No doubt "read once" Novels are ideal for eInk 6" readers. Seems strange the attitude that the Big Five and Mills&Boon/Harlequin have to ebooks.
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