pittrek said:

SilverWook said:

Are we going to need a kindle, or some other pricey device I don't currently own just to read these things?

Excatly what I'd like to know.

If you have a computer, you've already got the bare minimum hardware you need, it's just a lot more comfortable reading these things on a smart phone, tablet, or e-reader. Commercial e-books are usually either a .epub or a .mobi, and there's reader apps freely available for both. Amazon even has a free kindle app for basically every device you can imagine.