How Many of You are using Kindle/Nook?

I have some vision issues that drove a little over a year ago to research something I could read ebooks with, change the font face and text size as well as background to light sepia. I looked at dozens of them and got an iPad mini 2. I've read over a hundred books so far on it. I have the iBooks app and like that, the Kindle app and like that one too and the Overdrive App for libraries and it is a great one. There is an ocean of free literature out there and this tablet makes it very easy to find a good book. I've spent some money on books at both Amazon and the Apple store when I could not find them elsewhere.

I find it very easy to surf the net on the tablet too and rarely use my computer anymore. It does a lot of other things too like play music, take pictures and play videos. I mostly surf on it and read ebooks, always been a bookworm.

I sometimes use the Kindle app on my phone. I greatly prefer paper, but the phone is convenient for travel.

At home, I lean toward paper (partly because of my job at the library, which exposes me to so many books. Can I help it if piles of them follow me home?). On the trail, I use the Nook. Or the Kindle. Yes, I have both. I started with a Nook, but had to get a Kindle because too many of the ARC's I was offered were only available as Kindle books. I use the simplest version of each, with e-ink (doesn't bother my eyes any more than reading on paper), and no built-in lights (I'm a cheapskate, and I'm carrying a headlamp and spare batteries anyway...).

As we've gone more and more to a backpacking style that includes some actual R&R, I greatly appreciate being able to haul a half a dozen books along, or a giant tome. All in the 7.5 oz (Nook) or 6 oz (Kindle) package. The spouse and I each carry one now. I largely load them with library books, but I buy some (like when we went to Peru--that trip was longer than the lending period for library books [and at that point we owned 4 e-readers, one for each of us...]) and, as mentioned, have a fair number of advance review copies.

I have a nook (the original version) that I use occasionally. Mostly classics novels, but I recently located a copy of all of Lovecraft's writings that I need to move to it from the laptop. Still read a lot of paper books.

Ditto.

The thing that I like about the kindle is the fact that some rare books are outrageously priced as collector items and the kindle version is much more affordable. But the magic of holding a book and turning pages is lost.

And some good news about the Kindle App for iPad, just last week they updated the app so it has a new font, Amazon Ember Bold, that apps first bold font. I emailed them last year about the lack of a bold font. iBooks has their super legible San Francisco and Overdrive has seven bold fonts including Helvetica Bold, the one I like. Those three fonts are similar sans-serif fonts. Now I can read later into the night with the Kindle app. 

and I have to say the fabulous Retina display of the iPad is amazing. As I said, I compared all of the e-readers and tablets before choosing. In low light it can't be beat.