My sweet husband gave me a Kindle for Christmas this past year and I love it. My daughter gave me a great cover for it. I would not use one with out a cover. I am sure I would break it. But I have read more with this then I ever did with actual books. I have a lot of books though, so what do I do with all those, LOL.
What I like most about my Kindle that I never had with actual books is finding new authors. There are so many ebooks out there that were never actually published as real books. Publishers are super picky and sometimes will only publish known authors. But with the Kindle lots of new authors are getting a chance. I just finished a book called Origins by J.A. Konrath. I loved it, it was different and strange, but so fun. The author said that he has tried to get it published for years and got good feed back, but he was not a known author so it was not published till recently I guess. I think this happens with a lot of authors.