but Wikipedia suits my casual non-serious, non-academic reading requirements just fine these days.

There was a letter about this topic in the SCMP the other day. Pro-kindle vs pro paper book. The decent thing about a kindle is, you have everything in one device, encyclopedia, collections of books, etc, etc. 100 euros for one book is something I would never pay, but that is just me.

I'm sitting on the fence at the moment, although the new paperwhite or whatever it is called kindle might just be the motivation for me to ditch paperbacks for good.

Cheers,
SMGS