The thought of trying to read a screen through a ziploc makes me rather unenthused. And, uh, a lot of my casual leisure reading is academic books.

I'm not holding my breath on the library thing; my local system doesn't even have an effective electronic reminder system; the system I actually use doesn't allow out-of-county people to put holds on books (!) so I wouldn't have a prayer of getting my hands on an ereader; the place I'm going to live for the next year is in the Middle of Nowhere and I am not optimistic about their libraries, period.

I just don't know many people offline who use ereaders, period.