My e-reader (Kindle) is awesome. The battery lasts at least a month. And I can synch where I am on my desktop home computer, my work computer, my son’s Android. So no matter what I have access to, I can read it. The best thing, though, I can sit outside and read a book; can’t do that with a tablet.
Yep, I got my wife a Kindle for Christmas. She kept saying she didn’t need it because of the cost, but now she is hooked. In less than a year, she has already got rid of half the paperbacks and has gone almost 100% digital. She takes it everywhere.
Something these all-in-one device people don’t get is many of us want something that does a specific job really well and not an everything device that does it adequate. Same thing with most camera phones, almost any regular digital camera does a better job.