Yea me personally, I prefer books too because mostly I tend to read reference books which tend to have lots of illustrations and photos. Yea I know... picture books
. They don't translate as well to a Kindle as straight text does.
But a friend showed me a Kindle his kids bought for him lately and for someone who reads for pleasure, i.e. lots of fiction and such, the thing looks great. Very convenient, tidy and the type of monochrome monitors on them only use power to "turn pages" and almost nothing otherwise, so I guess a battery charge lasts a very long time compared to cell phones & laptops or the like. It appears to be very easy on the eyes and i guess the books are easy to purchase and pretty inexpensive compared to paper books (so I'm told). They will still interpret other files such as .pdf, but apparently doesn't do that great a job at it, or is at least much more klunky as you need to zoom and scroll etc.
Anyway, my buddy is a techno nerd like me except he likes to read novels for pleasure a lot and he likes the Kindle his kids gave him quite a bit.
For what that's worth.
