I thought this too, until I tried to read a novel on my ipod Touch. Admittedly, I used Kindle software rather than GoodReader, so maybe it makes a difference. But I found that having the pages come in such small chunks made reading very tedious.

Still, I like having ebooks available on my Touch and my Blackberry. Since I always have at least one of them with me, any time I have to wait around somewhere, I have reading material at the ready.

The problem is, during daylight savings time, it actually gets light later in the morning. While this isn't a big problem during the spring and summer (since sunrise is fairly early) during the winter months, it would stay dark quite late in the morning. That's what happened during the experiment in the 1970's, and as I recall, it resulted in a number of children getting hit by cars as they tried to get to school in the dark. I recall a bit of outcry about that.

But the strongest opposition to daylight savings time has traditionally come from farmers; evidently, it really mucks with their/their animals' schedules.

Some more of this history is discussed here.