I'm a bit of an anomaly as I greatly prefer reading ebooks to regular books. Even more anomalous, I prefer reading them on my phone to reading them on a Kindle.

I'm a bit of an anomaly as I greatly prefer reading ebooks to regular books. Even more anomalous, I prefer reading them on my phone to reading them on a Kindle. I read around 40 ebooks last year. To me the big wins with ebooks are: the immediacy of purchasing, the backlit screen and the fact I'm no longer burdened by having to house and store a bunch of dead trees. I know that a few studies have found reading an ebook is slower than reading paper, but anecdotally I'd swear that I read 10-25% faster. The only media that I still buy consistently on paper are graphic novels, but if I could get a decent digital comic reader for the Mac I'd drop those as well.