Would you switch to an e-book reader?

Well, I don't know if I would switch to using e-books. I think there is just something wonderful about holding the book in your hands, the smell of the paper, the words, the sound of the pages being turned. But, I'm more concerned about my footprint on this planet so I may give it a go...running out of space on my bookshelf anyway!

Yes but only when they are completely DRM free, so I can loan my books to friends and family as if it were a hard copy!

Only if I can read the book or refer to it as many times as I like, for as long as I like... can sell it at a garage sale or give it away.... pass it on to my great grand children... so long as it does not send info on how many times I have read it, and which parts I have read more than once to "someone". It should not be a proprietary format... open standards please! In other words, it must be exactly like a book.

I'm going to get a Kindall but not happily. I don't want to give up books but if a reader truly is more green for the planet, I'll do it. It does sound like fun to have several different pieces of reading material in one place rather than carrying several books, magazines, and a journal for work. I'm talking myself into it.

I would have trouble converting to an e-book. The cost of the reader is more than I am willing to spend right now. If purchasing the content is similar in cost to purchasing a regular book, then I don't see any benefit. My wife is an avid reader and likes to donate or give her used books to friends. I don't see publishers happily allowing folks to pass the content around, like a book, when a person is finished with it.
The issue is this, once you read a book and pass it to another, you no longer have the book. If you read an e-book and pass the content to another, you may still have a copy. Now two people have the content and only one paid for it.

Should have been an option for "I already have an e-book reader." I do -- it's a Kindle, and I love it. And no, I can't share e-books, but they often cost no more than half of what the hardcover version costs. I can read them as many times as I like and they never expire, and nobody keeps tabs on how many times I've read them. Like most things, it has its advantages and its disadvantages.

I love to read and storage of books has become a problem, so an e-book reader would help solve that problem.

I would consider changing over to e-books once color and turning a page with a finger movement across the screen. I would be looking with for these kind of options with the "MacTablet" as it is a bigger screen and in color. I would also presume that there would be touch-screen technology.