I guess I'm the minority here. I have the nook color and love it. I have had it for 5 months and have probably read over 100 books and haven't paid for any of them. You can get books from the digital library and read those as well. I dnt know how the kindle does with PDF books but the nook is great so we can read things like comic books with the kids. If you do a search of 0.00 in nook book section on barnes and noble you get over a million free books to choose from and every Friday they have a new free book to offer.