Are you one of the most satisfied e-reader owner?

[Greg Anos]

I'm very satisfied with my Bebook/Astak original 6" e-ereader, either running OpenInkPot or it's own software.

It has all the features I need (removable storage, removable/user replacable battery, and it'll read just about any non-DRM'ed format I pitch at it). Color would be nice, but not necessary.

[Maggie Leung]

The upgrades I really want in an iPad longer term: lighter weight and more battery life. I'm plenty pleased now, though, so much so that I bought a spare.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

I'm satisfied reading on my HTC smartphone. It is pocketable, has a great screen for reading, displays covers in full color, and accepts apps for most ebook formats out there. I crack the DRM on books I buy at Amazon and B&N, convert them to ePub, download them to my phone and read away.

Now, the reason this works well is because I haven't started reading magazines digitally yet... the mags I want aren't digital in formats I want. When they are, I'll be looking for a larger color reader, and then we'll see where the satisfaction levels go...

[jbcohen]

Love my Aluratek, would preferr a touch screen but I am simply not willing to pay that much for the touch screens. My theroy of all things eletronics states: If you see an electronic product you want, imagine a reasonable price that you want to pay for that product and wait, somewhere someone will eventually sell you that product for that price, its a matter of waiting. My strike price is $100 for the touch screens, I will eventually get it, its a matter of time. In the meantime my Aluratek does quite well.

[artemisblossom]

I absolutely love my sony prs505. It is perfect for me. I read mostly novels and I am very satisfied with the way it categorizies books for easy look up. The size is just right and I love the placement of buttons etc. Actually there is nothing I don't like about it. When my reader dies and I am forced to upgade it will most likely be the prs650 that I upgrade to.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Not portable!?!? It should be able to fit in any lady's purse

Not even if I fold it.

[James_Wilde]

Very pleased with my Iriver, in spite of its pimples. It can handle a lot of formats, although I have no plans to d/l other than epub. If I ever get rich and famous, or at least rich, I'd like to give that one which has two screens, Everglade or something. Then I could make notes on one screen whilst reading on the other.

[shanghaichica]

I am very happy with my K3 it is perfect. Was reasonably happy with my PRS-300 but the K3 is more complete. For now it does all I need. The only thing I would add is ePUB support so that I could transfer all of my books I bought for my Sony reader onto it. But for now it does what I need it too and I'm happy.

[L.J. Sellers]

I love my K3! But I also read short stories online and still read some print books. For example, I brought home a stack of print books from Bouchercon, which I'll read.
L.J.

[niksknits]

I absolutely adore my PRS-650. The screen is much better than the PRS-600, and the changes they've made to make the reading experience better are a huge plus. I read a lot of scientific papers in PDF format and having the ability to zoom without changing the format is awesome.

[yakuzaboss]

I'm extremely pleased with my Sony 650. Its just perfect for what I was looking for in an e-reader.

[darknessangel]

*highfives Donnageddon* Same here but with my Sony PRS-505. In fact, I am so pleased by it in terms of design and function that if it ever dies I will look for another 505 (I don't like touchscreens in something that small). And iPad rocks for reading rss feeds, technical pdf and showing a random presentation.

Originally Posted by Donnageddon

My Sony 650 (with the light case) is pretty close to perfection for a fiction book reader. The one major improvement now would be a less fragile plastic eink substrate. But the build quality for the 650, as well as past Sony models, is sturdy.

For larger format books and magazines I find myself well served with the iPad.

Most satisfied? I dunno. Need more info on the criteria.

[bevdeforges]

I am a very happy camper with my Sony PRS-600. I bought it primarily to be able to have easy access to English language books now that I'm not going back to the US on a regular basis any more.

English books are expensive here in France and finding specific titles I see reviewed can be a real nightmare. But downloading them is a breeze, and I have the files backed up safely on our server should anything happen to the files on the Reader. Lately I'm playing around with downloading files, memos and reports onto the Reader to avoid having to carry paper files with me to meetings and such.

I'm not interested in Internet access or wireless connections, so my Reader meets all my needs.

[SensualPoet]

I bought a Kindle 2i the first day it was available in Canada. I was blown away by how "natural" the experience of reading on it was. I got to know manybooks.net, mobileread and renewed my long-term acquaintance with gutenburg archive. It was actually several weeks before I bought an e-book fro Amazon; I think the first e-purchase of an e-book was at fictionwise. Satisfaction was high on the experience.

Then I took the e-reader to Mexico (two trips) including using the 3G on a 5 hr bus ride through the mountains to Guadalajara. I read about the towns along the way using wikipedia. I didn't recharge the device during the entire 2 week holiday. I even found the dictionary an unexpected pleasure whilst reading Chesterston. I was really, really satisfied.

Then I actually started to buy stuff from Amazon, as well as sampling free chapters and, indeed, whole books. The 60 second Whispernet always-connected, always archived aspect of Amazon Kindle experience blew me away a second time. It's so user-friendly. And then it got better: two software updates in the first seven months and each brought faster page turns, better battery life, and expanded 3G usage -- like the whole world wide web, not just wikipedia.

But then came Kobo on May 1 and I bought it the first day ti was available in Canada. Wow! Half the price, effectively, of the Kindle 2i and now I had access to a strange new world of ePubs, and better, the Toronto Public Library. It was a bit shaky firmware at first, but I personally had few troubles and purchases at fictionwise worked well; about half of the library books were fine (that nasty too small font issue now buried). The screen quality matched the Kindle 2i; kobobooks offered Canadian content I couldn't find at Amazon; the reader was considerably lighter and battery length good. Yup, I was a very satisfied customer.

Over the summer, I discovered kobo discount coupons which helped my grow my library and buy Georges Simenon novels which were stupidly priced as paperbacks ($17 for 1930s 180 pg novels?), and more expensive or unavailable in Kindle editions, nicely discounted at kobobooks. Not free; not cheap; but under $8 and, hey, classic terrific reads. And then all those Rex Stout at a discount, too, at kobobooks or fictionwise. Again, feeding the ePub side. I was a very satisfied customer.

Then came Kindle 3 and my lovely new Graphite WiFi only K3 arrived the day it was available in Canada. Brilliant clearer screen; way less $$ than the K2i; faster, better, more words per page, and all the great Amazon attributes plus protecting my K2i investment in content. (The Kobo and K3 were abt the same price combined as the K2i purchased just nine months earlier.)

Kindle 3 has made the Whispersync delivery so easy. And the wifi web experience has been flawless in airports and at home. It's not the browser of choice; but it works really well in a pinch. And I love the social networking aspects of highlighting, tweeting and possibilities down the road as I put my toe in that water.

All else being equal, the Kindle 3 is my e-reader of choice, DRM or not. It's lovely; it's so easy to use; and the Whispersync, across multiple devices, is brilliant (something, I might add, the Kobo shares, but a little less seamlessly). I recommend the K3 without reservation to anyone who asks ... but I do put in a word for Kobo (now in a wifi edition) if library book access or ePubs are important to them.

So ... satisfied? You betcha! And with every model I've sampled. The K2i has now been passed to my husband loaded with content I know he'll like and drawn from our shared Amazon and Calibre library. And in spite of my love of the Kindle 3, the last three books I've read have been on the original Kobo because that's where the content happens to be.

Thumbs up everyone (in a nice way)!

[Pomtroll]

I am satisfied with my NOOK & my Kindle 3 because I can carry around so many more books now.