What do you like about your ereader, revisited

I am curious as to what everyone likes and/or dislikes about their ereaders. We first talking about this in December and early January but I thought our views may have changed since then as we have become more familiar with our devices. Many of us had new ereaders then but what have we discovered now? Here is what I found....

• I love lending ebooks from the library! I had put some on hold when I first got my ereader and downloaded some just to see what it was like. At first I wasn't too impressed, but I also didn't download one of my favorite authors or books I would typically read. Once I read one I was more accustomed to reading in print, I was hooked at its convenience.


• I love the light weight and percentage read features! I typically enjoy holding a book and flipping pages so I still checkout 'real' books for this since nothing can really beat flipping real pages rather than tapping. However, another aspect of book reading that I always like is seeing how much I read in the time I have been reading. Its a vague measurement that usually consists of me seeing where my bookmark is and how long I have had the book. I love the percent read feature on the ebook for this reason. I find when I am engaged in a book, it goes super fast and I like to anticipate where I am at in relation to the entire story.


• I love browsing the free book section on my ereader! I know its a strange one, but I do. I have often used Amazon's site to see the feature "people who liked this or bought this also liked/bought....' I use this for recommendations and branching out in authors I have never tried. I also use the free book section this way. Recently I downloaded my first one and I honestly thought it probably wouldn't be very good because it was free. But I loved it! Perhaps they are being savvy in providing free books that get you hooked so you want to buy all the rest written by the author?


• I have a love-hate relationship using textbooks on my ereader -- mostly hate if I am being honest. I tried this out because I thought it I would like this method because I am a bit more tech oriented, but I definitely don't. I hate citing from my ereader. I don't know if since the ebooks are newer, citing rules are harder than for physical books, but it was an awful and time consuming experience for me. It was also harder for me to understand more complicated material on the ereader. I am more visual and I like the way textbooks lay out material rather than ereaders. Its not always as easy as just reading a regular book. After two weeks of citing and re-reading material, I gave up and bought the textbook. I used the textbook as my main source and the ereader as a back-up which I will explain more. The one aspect I did like about having a textbook on my ereader was that when I came to word I was unfamiliar with or couldn't remember the definition, I was able to tap & define. The other feature I found was instead of using an index and searching for material as one would with a physical textbook, I used the search feature which saved me some time. But these last two reasons are not enough to ever make me buy one again!This personal experiment has actually made me question all the articles I have read about schools using online textbooks and ebooks. Maybe it depends on the type of learner you are, but I can say it isn't for me!

So what have you discovered? Do you love it - what's your favorite part? Is it just okay - what would make it better?