kindle - opinions please

[bednobs]

after YET ANOTHER row with mr bednobs about the amount of space all the books i have take up, i have decided i will buy an e-reader. The best value one atm seems like amazon's kindle. Does anyone use one? Any problems? What is the range of books like? Are they expensive? Or other recommendations?

[Mosaic]

I'm holding off till the price drops, more versions of the technology come out and more/cheaper books are around.
Plus, bet it's a sod if you drop it in the bath.

[jake-the-peg]

I'm waiting for the colour versions to emerge

Plus are you really going to buy all those again on electronic format?

[LeMarchand]

Why not upgrade to a smartphone? One less device to carry around (and probably less expensive). Although the disparity isn't as bad as it was, last I looked ebooks were stupidly over-priced considering the production costs must be negligible.

[bednobs]

Thanks people for your thoughts. i was thinking of getting the kindle cause it's £109 now. I'm not sure they will go down much more, especially not this year as xmas i coming up
I'm also not sure what particular advantage colour will give. I will not buy the books again, (it's just to stop me buying more!)but am a bit concerned that there aren't all that many in the kindle store. prices seem good for the books - for example the tony blair one is £6.99 and the cheapest ive seen it in the shops is around £12.50, but if the range is crap then price is immaterial really. More thinking needed i reckon!