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"Nothing electronic shall ever replace, in my humble hovel, a real book!"

The Kindle has for me. Try it, perhaps, like me, you'll find it much, much better, and wind up reading many times more than before. The advantages I've found (in no particular order) are: (1) The Kindle is very light and much easier to hold than a book; you won't know how much of a difference that makes until you try it for a couple of days. (2) You can hold more than 1500 books on a Kindle, and each book stays right on the page where you left off. This allows me to easily read three or four books at the same time. (3) The type size is adjustable, a great benefit for those of us who need glasses. (4) The Kindle covers either have integrated lights, or, as with the Kindle Fire, the screen itself is illuminated. This makes it very cozy for reading at night. (5) You can search for and download a new book in less than a minute. Sometimes, I'd be reading a book review and decide I'd like to read that book, and it's there on my Kindle in less time than it took to read the review. (6) There are very nice leather covers for the Kindles that look like antique bindings and add hardly anything to the weight. This allows me to take the Kindle with me anywhere, and I do. (7) Amazon lets you to have up to six Kindles on one account, all loaded with the same books without an extra fee. This allows you to have a Kindle everywhere, at home, at work (for lunch), or where ever, and each Kindle automatically synchronizes to the last page you read on any other Kindle.

BTW, I've had my Kindles for three years, and have never had a sofware failure, a broken screen, or a malfunction of any kind.

Ditto all the way down the line. I'd pretty much reduced my pleasure reading to nothing until I got my first gen Kindle, now I read all the time. Plus a lot of the "classics" that I like to read are in the public domain and free.

I have found with advancing age that I'm now seriously thinking about the paper white version. Sure, I can enlarge the font on my gen 1 but the paper white looks very sharp.

Anyone have any hands on with the paper white?

We got one of the Kindles Today. Wife is away on a trip so I decided to go ahead and check it out. After three hours of trying and talking to Amazon Customer support it still won't connect to my wireless router.

OK so maybe my router is older and a bit quirky for newfangled Kindle Gadgets but I am told I can't hook my Kindle up via USB connect and hook to Amazon to download and sync through my laptop (which hooks up to my Wireless network fine and dandy.)

Needless to say I am not a Happy Kindle Camper at this point. Amazon Cust.Sup. tells me I need to go to the local Mickey Dees and see if I can log onto their wireless network to rule out whether this particular Kindle Fire is fubared on wireless connectivity.

Yeah not at all happy at this time especially when "She who must be obeyed" told me she also ordered a Kindle Fire HD for Teenage Daughter. I am gonna be real unhappy if I need to buy a new wireless router to get these things to work.