I got a Kindle when I was traveling around the world for 6 months. Buying a book, carrying it around and selling it for a fraction of its price 3 days later got very tiresome very soon. So I bought a Kindle, which weighs the same no matter how many books are on it.

Since then, I read way more than before (about 25 books per year, fiction and non-fiction, sometimes 2-3 in a week, sometimes nothing for a month). I also feel like I read faster.

I mostly read in English, although my native language is German, because translation is so damn easy (just point your cursor in front of a word), because English books are often way cheaper on the Kindle and there's simply a bigger selection, and because I enjoy reading English books in their original language.