How to read eBooks?

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Is there a comfortable way to read ebooks? I don't want to sit at my computer and I certainly don't want to try to read a book on a handheld thingy. Even the classics are online. But how to settle down with a cushion, a cup of tea, and a good ebook?

I dont think anything can replace the joy of a real page turning book in my hands.I buy them at garage sales and thriftstores.....(may have to wade through some crappy best sellers and romance novels,but I have found some good ones)

The closest I come to an Ebook,is sitting in bed with one of those laptop padded cushions on my lap and a laptop on top of that.I hate to sit in real chairs(avoided any jobs that required that).I use cushions for my back and spend hours on WP,reading posts in bed....very cozy.

I'll always prefer a book, but I wish they'd hurry up the technology for a "read only" experience - only need a screen about 5"x7" and Next and Back. Maybe Pause. They'd get takers. Imagine carrying a world of books on a CD wherever I go! Not to mention some books being published only as ebooks.

I think e-books are fine for technical reference materials, but reading a long classic novel on a computer screen seems too cumbersome, not to mention hard on your eyes.

agreed. too easy to get distracted. too much visual information other than the book's text. even if you're in full screen mode, you still have the tendency to want to go check your email in the middle of an important paragraph.

I think I didn't make myself clear. I want the industry to invent a portable, possibly flexible, remote screen, Read Only, except for scroll. It would not access any programs, except the ebook. Now that I think of it, it could be book-shaped (why not?) - paperback size! that would be terrific. And an option to scroll down by 'turning the page' - the same movement as for a book but touch the upper corner of a page. It could even display recto-verso.

Well, that would be the whole nine yards. My question was have they come up with anything yet - I guess the answer's no.

But wouldn't there be a tremendous market for that? University students would save a bundle, part of which they could spend on the reader.

I love physical books too, stacks and stacks of them. But I move a lot, and I've had to give away a lot of my books, especially since I'm older and can't carry things like I used to. If they were on CD, I could carry my entire library with me anywhere.

Where would I go to beg for such an invention? California? Hong Kong? It's not very exotic, really.