I have the Kindle Touch and I love it. It does not have a backlight, and I have not heard good comments from people with readers that do have one. It seems that the lights produce a very annoying glare on the screen. I simply bought a clip-on LED reading light for around $10, and that solves the issue when I want to read at night without leaving the bedroom light on. There are also many inexpensive covers you can buy for it which is a wise idea - I think mine was about $12. The Kindle comes with a USB cable, so all you do is plug that in to your computer to charge it - and a charge lasts a very long time. I got my Kindle for Christmas, and after the initial full charge which took a few hours, I have only charged it once again, and according to the charge meter reading, it still had a lot of time left on it. And I do quite a bit of reading, since I just finished my 9th book on it yesterday! You don't need to buy a plug for it unless you would want to charge it by plugging into an electrical outlet if you didn't have access to a computer, and it needed to be charged.