In February this year I borrowed a Kindle for two weeks and because the authors I wanted to read like Adrian Hyland, Garry Disher were not available I thought it wasn't for me. Disgruntled I returned the Kindle.

A month ago I borrowed another and this time I am loving it. I decided not to worry too much about Australian content and start reading some new authors. @flexnib has blogged about her love of Henning Mankell so I decided to give him ago. I am now enjoying my second title.

I have also been playing around with loading PDFs onto the Kindle. Great for carrying around crochet patterns.  You can't change the font size on the PDFs so they can be difficult to read. But I have been making do. With PDFs you also need to send them to Amazon to convert before you can load them on to your Kindle. There is a free service or a fee-for-conversion service. Needless to say I email mine to the free service.

I now know after rekindling my relationship with the Kindle I would love the ipad.

Downsides

• I want more content to choose from many of the books I want are not available in Australia
• Kindle feels retro (but that's cool right) well no. I love gestural computing. I want to tap and swipe I find the menu clunky
• Backlight - I want to be able to read it without turning on the light so I don't wake my bed buddy when I have insomina
• It froze and wouldn't respond for 2 days until it ran out of battery and reset itself (holding the power switch on for 15sec and letting go didn't work the numerous times I tried it)

I have noticed since using the Kindle I have also started using the Kindle app on the iphone more. The background is currently a nice sepia and I like the way the pages change. I wish the Kindle was more like the iphone. If I had an ipad I would probably be too distracted by all the other apps to actually read a book.

Finally, ebooks are cheaper and lighter and although I love the printed page I am not afraid to mix it up and use an ebook reader too.