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I have a variety of ereading devices and I tend to go back to the Kindle. Why? Whispernet, especially when I travel is soooo easy. I can purchase individual copies of my newspaper and if I really just have to read a specific book I can 99% of the time easily purchase it from Amazon.
I far prefer the physical keyboard to a virtual one. I can't tell you how many hotels I've stayed in that have really bad wifi and being able to use my Kindle to check email and rudimentary web surfing has been a life saver. Faster than my nice smartphone and a bigger screen to boot. If I traveled more I'd get a broadband card for my laptop.
The dictionary is a big plus. I use it frequently and any device without one is lacking, IMO. The same goes for the search feature. Have you ever been reading a book a character pops up that you don't really remember from earlier in the book? It's pretty easy to search on the character's name and refresh your memory.
I don't care for the screensavers but I don't consider them a minus. What I don't like about the Kindle is the mobi/prc/azw format. Really wish that ePub was directly supported on the Kindle. I can take the same book view it in ePub and mobi/azw/prc and almost always the ePub version is better formatted. Plus ePub gives you page numbers instead of the Kindle's unusual numbering system. But, for me, this is a minor annoyance and I mostly read on my Kindle.
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