Neeum Zawan wrote:
> Why?

For one, it's easy to travel.

> Honest question. The things preventing me from buying one are worry
> over how long I can keep any books I buy, and because I've shifted to
> libraries anyway. 

That bothered me for a while also. Then I realized I have large stacks of 
books that I've read once and will likely never read again. As well as other 
stacks of technical books that will be obsolete long before I run out of 
space on the kindle. As well as bunches of free books in electronic form 
that would be quite annoying to read on a computer screen.

Any book I want to read again in 15 years I'll buy again, or buy in 
paperback in the first place, assuming I didn't find it online for free 
somewhere without the DRM.

I might have bought a Nook if it had the bigger screen; the fact that it's 
android (and hence likely going to have a jailbreak at some point) and the 
"loan a book" thing were cool.  I thought the UI on the Nook was very 
confusing for the half hour I played with one.

I might have bought an iPad if I had any other Apple hardware in the house.

As it is, I bought a Kindle.

Sure, they could take books off the machine in spite of their promises not 
to. (After the 1984 thing, they promised that while they'll take it out of 
the library, they won't retroactively delete it from your device.) Sure lots 
of the books probably have DRM on them. But there's ways around that for the 
occasions where it's a problem.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Quoth the raven:
        Need S'Mores!

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