I love my Kindle. I have had it for about 1 1/2 years. Last week I got the new one, not because I had to, but I wanted to. Since I have 2 Kindles, I can lend the first one to my sister and she can read all the books I have..152! I have read about 100 of them. I bought the cover with the built in booklight. I love that feature. The new one has a very big contrast between the text and the I like being able to use the text to speech feature. When I have to do something else, I can keep "reading" by switching on the text to speech feature. The voice can be set to male or female, fast or slow reading. It does not sound like a computerized voice. The older books do not all have the text to speech, but all the newer authors do provide it. Their book prices have dropped on several of the new books. With some authors, they start at a higher price and then after a few weeks the price is lowered. The new Kindle is smaller. Now I can buy a smaller purse. The nook advertises that you can loan your books to other nook users, what is not advertised is that you can lend them only once and only for 7 days. I still spend hours in Barnes and Noble, still spend a bunch there, but I would never have anything but a Kindle. I never go anywhere without my Kindle.
Elizabeth