Thing Nine: e-books

I have a Nook Color. I held out for a long time (long after my parents and sister had succumbed to the siren call of the Kindle) because I wanted a lot from my reader
1. It had to read .pdf's
2. It had to be compatible with Overdrive
3. Color would be nice

Confession: I'm not using it all that much for reading books. I'm using it as a web browser, a knitting pattern library, a photo album and sometimes to read books. I anticipate using it more when there are more books available through Overdrive and on vacations, but most of the books I've read on it were either free or things I thought I wanted to be able to go back and re-read or consult as reference material. Since I'm not a huge nonfiction reader I'm not doing a whole lot of that.

I do see the potential for using it to store even more knitting patterns and recipes once I get myself one of those portable scanners so I can scan the things I like in my knitting magazines and either get rid of them, give them away, or at the very least store them somewhere besides my bedroom.  On an aside, one of the things I love about Ravelry (like the way I got Ravelry into the conversation?) is that you can add all the magazines and books you own to your Ravelry Library and search them for that pattern you know you saw somewhere but can't remember where.