I bought one for mom for Christmas and she loves it. She takes a lot of trips and was always packing several books that took up a bunch of her airline weight limit. Now she carries the Kindle in her purse and has all the books she could want. I have an IPad which I love and I found the Kindle app for it. Now when I buy books I can down load on my IPad and her Kindle, only pay once. It's great, she gets all the books she can read and it not cost her anything. It's great we both like the same books, authors. I get a lot for free and many for .99.