I love, love, love my Kindle Fire! Had the Kindle reader first, and now the Fire … gave the kindle to my daughter, you can share your books, and you can also read them on your iPad or laptop etc. If you have an amazon account, and you have to have one to purchase ebooks for kindle I guess, then they are stored there too. Daughter has her iPad on a stand in the kitchen, and keeps her recipes on it, listens to music on it via speakers, and reads books of course. For traveling, its wonderful to have it to read books, without schlepping them around. When I'm at my Mom's (she has no internet) I take it along and read. We love technology.
But yes, sometimes it's nice to have a paper book, I have bookshelves full of them, and love books. But in the future, I think the ebooks will take over!