I have the smaller kindle and I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of technical ebooks that read nicely on it (they have to be .mobi though as pdf are n

I have the smaller kindle and I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of technical ebooks that read nicely on it (they have to be .mobi though as pdf are not nearly as pleasant). I've also found that I now prefer ebooks on my laptop for any exercise heavy reading. For example right now I have half my screen devoted to emacs+slime and the other have to 'land of lisp', I've found this much better than trying to balance a print book and a laptop. I still need/prefer print books in certain situations, but I'm happy with the shelf space this saves. Also don't forget that you permanently have multi-format, drm-free access to O'Reilly ebooks.