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I started reading books electronically on my Palm Pilot III, later a Palm V, then a SONY Clie. I loved the convenience of it, especially because I didn't have the shelf space for all my books at home and I'm into 800+page fantasy books that are a hassle to carry around. After reading on PDAs anything is a luxury. These days I read on my smartphone when out and 11inch iPad at home. It's important to manage display brightness though to not tire the eyes, unlike eInk which depends on ambient light.
I generally use Google play books, it syncs across devices and have translation which is good as I started reading French books. But these features are also available on other readers like Kindle.
Interestingly I once worked on an eInk reader for a book chain competing with Amazon. I didn't get any freebie though.
Fascinating. Did you read paper books before that? You essentially had the same experience that took a Kindle for me to have it taken.
I had a similar experience. Back before epub took off, I started reading Gutenberg books on my wince phone. I think I was using an app called jbookshelf. Even then I loved the convenience of it.
Once android happened, I switched to epubs and it was so much better.
Now I'm mostly using koreader, along with kindle and Google play books. I prefer reading anything in a foreign language on Kindle, because it's so easy to look up words.