I want an e-reader

I feel left behind. I really want to be a hip young librarian in the know. However, while still going to school I obviously am not making a ton of money working only part time. Therefore I am not rich, and cannot afford an e-reader. But I would really really like one! Why? My family asks and my husband asks, why do you need an e-reader. Paper books and magazines work just fine. And the simple answer is well not so simple. I could say that I want one for the convenience, because that is true, or so that I carry less books around with me and that is also true. But I think the real reason is that I want to be with current technology and the library world is started to use and embrace e-readers and e-books. Yes, they are still a small part of the book market, but that portion is growing.
Library Journal is hosting a webinar soon solely about e-books, many large and medium sized library systems now have e-books to check out. A library director who I interviewed a YEAR AGO, was using e-readers as an essential part of the class he was teaching. But finally and most importantly for me, I have started to actually have practical uses for one. I have started to find e-books in my email inbox, to sign up for on LibraryThing and seen advertisements for free downloads of some classics. Just today I got an email previewing some new titles of books coming out this fall. (so exciting, I am still new enough that free books in any shape or form are still awesome to me and I still pretend to have time to read them). One of these new titles you could download the first chapter to preview and read! But for me reading long things on the computer is difficult, I much prefer to sit in a nice oversize comfy chair and read. And I am too cheap to print out 32 pages of this book. So what would be the perfect solution? An e-reader, but well I don't have one. So I am stuck with either reading uncomfortably from my computer screen or spending the money on ink and paper and printing out 32 pages......

At the moment I am feeling cheap, so the computer screen it is, but oh How I want an E-Reader. I am not picky at the moment, Kindle, Nook, IPad, any will do... :)