How to fall in love with ebooks?

[holyschist]

I've noticed that generally people seem to fall in instant love with ereaders. I didn't, and I'd really like to, in hopes of being able to haul around somewhat fewer dead trees (although much of my book collection is unfortunately not a good candidate for digital replacement).

Is there anyone out there who was not immediately enthused, but grew to love an ereader anyway? What helped? Better technology (the new eInk screens are significantly better than on my old Sony)? A different model? Something else?

At present, I pretty much only use my ereader for traveling. I feel like the advantages of print books for me are a) I find them more comfortable to read, b) higher contrast (possibly resolved by new eInk?), and c) I enjoy being able to flip through books (I also enjoy being able to search books, but mostly do this on my computer). Also, for many of the backlist books I love, ebook conversions are often extremely poor in quality, and I resent having to hack a file to fix formatting and OCR errors when I can get a perfectly fine paper copy, and may already own one. So I don't know, maybe these are insurmountable issues?

Anyone else been in this boat and found a way to make ereaders really work for you?

Comments

[yarngeek]

I haven't really cottoned onto ereaders as such*, but I found that having a smart(enough) phone with an app really converted me just about overnight. Do I have my phone with me == do I have eleventymillion books/stories with me and the opportunity for more (unless the train's in a tunnel).

* I commute on the bus and the train, carrying a laptop, lunch, water, snack, coffee, iPod, and phone with me. I strongly resist carrying *anything else* if I don't have to.

[holyschist]

Alas, my phone's battery life is crap. :-/

I did get a Nook Color, though, and I think that may actually have converted me, even if it doesn't have the battery life of eInk....