Ordinary Day

Having tried reading ebooks on various platforms (normal desktop, a variety of Kobos, two Android phones, two Android tablets), I'd say that in some sort of read-comfort order, it would hav eto be "the Kobos", "the Nexus 7", "the Nexus 9", "the phones" and last (and least) "the desktop".

But if I hadn't had the disposable income for the (so far three) Kobos I've bought, I'd say that either of the tablets would've been "good enough" (the phones are just about liveable with, the desktop really isn't convenient for reading on the go).

One of the things I really appreciate with ebooks is that it makes me vastly less likely to run over my hold luggage weight limit on long travels. A normal trans-Antlantic flight sees me read somewhere between 3 and 6 books between "leaving home" and "arriving at hotel other end" (benchmarked on London-Charlotte-Roanoke, London-Chicago-Seattle, London-Seattle and London-San Francisco), with essentially similar numbers for the returns. Add in the reading required for ~2 weeks of "being on the other end" and you're looking at 15-20 books, just to be sure. That's not a trivial weight and having them stored as bits means I can pack other things.

As for pricing, I suspect that it might eventually settle. If nothing else, I suspect there may be more "primarily electronic" publishers springing up, although that might require changing the whole way that book publishing rights are bought. It would be a vast advantage for a publisher to buy world-wide electronic $LANGUAGE rights, but I can't easily intuit if that would be an advantage for authors or not.