I’m looking forward to all the answers but I’d like to ask a question of my own. How many are Kindle users and how many are old fashioned paper-and-fabric book readers? And why?
I have Kindle Unlimited. If you read quite a bit it is well worth the $10.00 a month.
I was staunchly paper reader but since getting an ipad several years ago now, I only read on there. Immediate ability to download a book in seconds is what sold me, instead of waiting to have one delivered, also much easier than hauling books around when you travel.
I just finished Rod Dreher’s How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem. And just started Kirsten Power’s The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.
I use both the Nook and the Kindle as well as paperback and hardbound.
And why?
They (Kindle and Nook) are both good quality, good battery life, easy to read, no external light source needed, therefore good for in-bed reading with the wife, an almost unlimited library.
One drawback to the e-readers is the inability to look back and skip ahead...something I am prone to do with print books.
Bad habit, but I've done it all my life and enjoy doing it, although I also enjoy NOT being able to do so with the e-readers.
I still read paperback and hardbound, as much as I can get my hands on.
I am a voracious reader.
I average two novels, weekly, sometimes four if they are smaller, along with several gun mags, knife mags, auto mags, motorcycle mags, how-to-do-it mags, the internet and TV news.
I am a book addict and information junkie...and there is no cure.
And I retain the information, educational and entertainment value of everything I read.
Reading is, in my opinion, the single best thing one can do to improve mental acuity and awareness of the world we live in, be it fact or fiction.
I stick with the old-fashioned paper books. There’s just nothing like them! I like the way they smell and feel. I like being able to flip back and forth.
I read on my kindle if the book is available. I have been chewing through Larry Nivens known space books. The Ringworld trilogy is awesome.
Basic bottom dollar kindle for me.
Who needs Kindle?
With quality alone as the criteria, I could easily read only the free works at these two sources and the remainder of my lifetime would not be sufficient to run out of material.
Metaphorically speaking, who would have predicted only a few decades ago that a veritable "Library of Congress," indeed the libraries of the Western world, would be at my fingertips, with the only thing missing from the latter source being the "feel" and "smell" of the original works themselves?
I read old-fashioned books. I got a Kindle for Christmas two years ago and promptly forgot my password. I don’t know how to fix that, so it’s an expensive paper weight at this point.