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What Is Your Primary E-reading Device? [Poll]

I would appreciate, if you leave your quick vote. Although many of us may access their digital bookshelves from a number of devices, I wanted to keep the poll simple. Please check only one answer, make sure to choose your primary e-reading device – the one you use most intensively to read e-books.

Computer desktop, laptop, netbook, etc.
E-reader a device specifically designed to be used for reading e-books, f.e. Kindle (Nook Color comes here)
Tablet multi-purpose devices like iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab
Phone any cellphone
Others other devices with e-reading capability, f.e. gaming consoles (iPod Touch comes here)

It would be great, if you will also leave a comment with what device you use and how do you feel about it.

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I’ve been running a similar poll already at Password Incorrect, but decided to close it as it was not including tablets as a separate answer.

The poll started in July 2009. Things have changed since that time. Tablets entered the game as well as cloud bookshelves, accessed from applications or browsers. Both changed the way we consume books. Now we can freely use more than one device to read books. Clearly, e-book reading moves from device-centric stage to the next one, where reader’s cloud bookshelf is the most important element.

In this former poll 387 votes were left. What’s important: blog’s visitors come from different countries, so the results represent not only a US  perspective. Check this screenshot with a worldwide traffic to Password Incorrect.

The results for the closing day, 6th of April 2011 were:

1. Computer – 43%, 165 votes
2. Phone – 32%, 125 votes
3. E-reader – 25%, 96 votes
4. Others – 12%, 47 Votes

At the beginning, in 2009 computers were dominating, with more than 50%, but certainly their role will be limited to book buying and managing. I’m surprised that so many people are using their phones to read – even that the results may be affected by the profile of this blog, devoted to make people use their phones to read e-books.