Should i buy a Kindle 3?

Does any of you have a kindle (3rd generation)? What are your experiences? is the reading as good as with a normal book? Also im interested if amazon cares if a load my own ebooks on it. Also do you really use it? Because i could imagine that maybe i would miss my good old paperback.

I ordered one but cancelled at the last minute (turns out that Europeans pay 3-5 dollars extra per book and no free 3g)  
  
The device itself is very nice, lasts for ages and very cheap. if you want a quality e reader it about the best you can do. 
 but loading your own ebooks (epub. and google books) is not possible, although it does support PDF if i am not mistaken.  
 
So if you are willing to invest money into the amazon kindle store, this is the best way to go. 
PS: go for the wifi edition it is a lot cheaper and 3g is not exceptionally usefull. 

I've got one and I love it. It's sitting right in front of me now. I actually have never even bought a book to read with it. I just read technical manuals and some textbooks in pdf form. It's pretty handy :)

I have a Kindle 3 and so does my wife.  I really like it. 
 
I have only bought a couple of books from Amazon, most of mine are from elsewhere.  There is a program called Calibre that can convert pretty much anything to a .mobi (which the kindle supports) and you can sideload stuff that way.  You can do it either by emailing to your kindle (username@free.kindle.com) or over usb.  Calibre can also host a web service that you can browse from the kindle and download stuff that way too.
 
You won't be able to get stuff from Barnes and Noble or Sony's ebook site, but you can get stuff from Fictionwise and Diesel books or any other source you can find.  ePub is the easiest format to convert mobi but pdf and html can also be done. You may have to strip DRM to be able to convert it from some places but that shouldn't be too difficult to figure out.
 
I have the wifi edition. I thought I would regret it and want the 3g, but really now I think the 3g would be a waste of money.  The browser is so slow that it's not really worth using most of the time.

Will Smith recommends it, and I'd say he's reliable.

Yeah im actually from europe so that kind of sucks...i really hoped to be able to load my own ebooks on it since im not willing to buy them all in the amazon kindle store....damn!! pted to buy one because the wifi model is only about 100 euros. that is ridiculous cheap in my mind!

I got one and I like it a lot. But if the European books are way more expensive then that would be a dealbreaker for me.

I have the older model Kindle.  I love it, especially for magazines and newspapers.  Get one.  Now!

I read a ton of books, and thought I would never want to switch to any sort of eReader because I can be a book purist. And it's true, you still can't beat the feel of a good book in your hand, etc. etc.
 
However, I got a Kindle 3 over the holidays, and I absolutely love it. The physical act of reading is the same - the screen doesn't put any strain on your eyes or anything - but it's made reading easier. It's easier to toss my Kindle in my bag (something that was sometimes difficult with the massive fantasy tomes I like to read) and read one-handed wherever I go.
 
So for convenience, yeah, it's great. I still like owning physical books, but I love reading on my Kindle.

I have a Kindle 3 and a Nook. Both work great, although I like my Kindle 3 better, just lighter and page turns a bit faster. I like actual books but I'm a technophile, so I was drawn to it. 

I just ordered one a few days ago actually. I'm excited. My dorm room doesn't have wireless so 3G is a godsend. 
 
@sammo21 said:

"  I still like physical books, but a man can only have so much space. "