I like my kindle but honestly mostly read on the kindle app on my iPad these days—it’s a bigger screen and easier to navigate/download/etc. The paper white kindle is nice for being smaller and lighter but mostly I only use if I want to carry something tiny and/or it’ll be in bright sunlight where the iPad isn’t as good. (Also it’s waterproof!)

I also have a Kindle, though I don't think it's a Paperwhite. What I like about reading on it rather than a phone or iPad is the ability to take blue light out of the equation. I try to limit that because of the migraines, and I find my eyes get tired less quickly with my Kindle.

Blue light is definitely a thing for me, and on the days when I don't check in here or on FB it's usually because I can't stop tearing up. Sounds like a Kindle Paperwhite is the one for me.

Any e reader recs? Kindle? Fire? Something else? I'm tired of struggling with this.

I loved my Nook so very much, and broke it. Since they were out of them at the moment I broke it I tried the Kindle and I hate it compared to my dear Nook. I have the Paperwhite, but it just doesn't have my love. I'll get another Nook again.

Note that I don't think Nook has all the super free and cheap e-books to the extent that Kindle has them.

one of the advantages of the Paperwhite is that you can borrow ebooks from the library and have them auto-sent to your Kindle! It's great. You don't have to download and side-load them or anything.

The battery on a Paperwhite lasts a long time, and it's as easy to read as a paper book for me. I have basically stopped buying hard copies of books.

You can also download fic and sideload it.

I do like the ease of being able to just email things to my Kindle.

You can absolutely add fic to your kindle. I have several comfort reads on there. I keep a lot of comfort reads (fic or regular books that i read and re-read) on there, with newer or temporary stuff on the iPad.

I loved my Kindle Oasis because I found it easier to hold, but when it broke, I bought the most basic model and it has worked out fine once I put a pop tab in the back. I love it for reading in bed because the light isn't enough to keep TCG awake and I can read until I fall asleep, which is the only thing that works for me. I do have a kindle app on my ipad which I mainly use for graphic novels and cookbooks.

I like the physical design of the Kindle Oasis and adding stuff to it that doesn't come from Amazon seems to be pretty easy (I haven't done it a whole lot, but I apparently expect it to be much more complicated than it actually is and am pleasantly surprised every time). Bluetooth only for audio, which is ok for me but something to consider if you have plug in headphones you love or something.