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I realize I'm in the minority here but I do a lot of my reading on a smartphone using the Moon+ reader app. There are a lot of other apps that'll work about as well.
I realize you said you don't have a smartphone but I've bought a very cheap second phone ($20 refurbished) to read with at home so I don't use up the battery in my regular phone. I don't have service on it. I just use Wifi. Moon+ has the ability to browse Gutenberg as well as other sites and to download free books so I don't even need a web browser, although actually I buy most of my books from Amazon and remove the DRM to read them in Moon+.
This will work as well on a tablet although tablets with decent screens for reading cost a bit more than smartphones and, being bigger, they won't fit in a shirt pocket. Personally I prefer the small size of the phone. It's text is slightly wider than a newspaper column so I think it's a good size for reading.
There is the problem of the backlight, which is a bit hard on my eyes. I've found that if I stop reading to rest my eyes for about a minute every 20 or 30 minutes that isn't a problem. If I don't, my eyes begin to water and go out of focus. That isn't a problem with a Kindle or Kobo. But to me it's a small problem. I stop that often to think about what I'm reading anyway.
This isn't the solution for everyone but I've been doing it for a year or two now and I like it.
Barry
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