No eye strain at all. It's just like a paper page from an actual book. I can literally spend half a day reading on my Kindle without having eye strain. Kobo and Nook are kinda crap compared to Kindle, though the Nook Glow would be a viable alternative to the Kindle Paperwhite if you're interested in going down that route. The fluff about missing the smell of books is just funny. I have hundreds of dead-tree-books in my various libraries (at home and at uni) and I've never felt any nostalgia for the smell since let's face it, it's not all it's hyped up to be. Especially the older books that already smell kinda bad. I do like the smell of new books though that I randomly sniff while visiting bookstores like MPH or Kinokuniya when I'm looking for new ebooks to download.

Is it a 1st or 2nd gen PW? I'm looking for a new ereader to replace my Kindle Touch since the main button doesn't really work anymore (a pain in the ass to use) and I could really use the light. If you've still got it could you pm me the price? Thanks.

Erm how much? Can COD?

There are lots of free sites out there...if you know what I mean. You can use Calibre on your computer to manage your ebook library as well as convert epubs to mobi and vice versa, provided that they aren't encrypted. Unencrypted ebooks can transferred to and fro your kindle via usb. It's just copy paste basically. If you're talking about the ebooks you bought from Amazon though, you can use the Kindle app to download and read your purchased ebooks on your tablet, computer or mobile device as well. You can also use various tools to strip the DRM from your .azw (Amazon mobi encrypted format) so that you can read it on any mobile device. This can also be done with encrypted epubs (from Kobo/Barnes and Noble and the other e-retailers) as well.

This post has been edited by red streak: May 24 2014, 09:30 AM