I have an iPad. Next to the TMX it is my fav. gadget at the moment. I have read over a 100 books on it in just under a year. During that time I have still bought hard backs, but not as many. I love the colour and the Apps. I buy a recharge from Telstra for $150 so that I can use it pretty much any where. I can switch to WIFi if I don't want to use my $150. When I buy a book, say from KOBO, my DH can read it also. He also has an iPad.
It can do lots of things that I have not used yet, but still I manage to learn something new to do with it every day.
What i miss is buying hard back books and swapping them with friends. I also don't like the way it anticipates what i am writing and puts a word in , when I don't want it. I think It can be set up, to not do this.
I use it in the kitchen when I am cooking, and read in bed when i can't sleep. I sometimes type messages on it to the Forum. These are usually the ones with rather weird spelling. When we are at the Dr. and they wont to know what medication I or DH is on, I just tap it up on the iPad.
I have had to have an extra pair of glasses made, especially for reading the iPad in bed.
Sometimes I find a recipe that I like while still in bed, so I send it to my MacBook computer, in the study, and then print it off later.
I haven't used a Kindle but while OS saw many people reading on them . They loved them.
I can't print from the iPad.