It's funny, I find most people that love their Kindle were skeptical at first. I'm finding too that it's the big readers that enjoy it the most, because as soon as you finish one book you can grab another without leaving home. My mum hated her Kobo but she's a very casual reader so access to hundreds of books at once wasn't a big thing for her.
That's the reason I love mine. Finished a book at work last week, on my lunch break. That would previously have been cause for massive despair - desperate reading of MX on the way home and staring out the window with glazed look on my face. Or I'd succumb and buy a new book even though I've got forty thousand at home that I really should read. Then end up carting two books home with me.

Now - back to home screen, start a new book. Love it.

I was going to read the hunger games, but then I saw a preview for the movie, and it looks just like a whittled down version of Battle Royale ... tell me more about it, please?
I loved it, P! It is written from the POV of a teenage girl, so it does have teen themes (crushes, teen angst, peer pressure), but it also has some very adult themes in it - the Hunger Games are basically a battle to the death for 12 teenagers, winner is last person standing (alive). There's a whole thing about challenging the authorities, as well as standing up for what you believe in, sacrifice, love, family... It packs a fair punch.

I found it gripping and well-written. But I haven't read Battle Royale so I can't compare sorry!

ETA: just wikied Battle Royale. It does sound very similar - they send the teenagers in to the Games to prevent any uprising in the people of the mythical country of Panem. Instead of detonating the collars if no one dies in 24 hours, in the Hunger Games the "Gamemakers" send surprises in to make some action - might be a creature or some sort or a meteorological condition (flood, fire, something like that) to spice things up. But it does sound kind of similar.