3rd person limited and 1st person are the two most used POVs today. I've heard readers say they like 1st person because you can get closer to the character and story, you can really get into it and the like. I don't think I've ever had anyone specifically say they prefer to read 3rd person, but I have heard people complain that there was no difference between two characters by the same author who used 1st person POV for both of the characters.
Basically, at the moment, 3rd person limited is effectively "invisible" to the reader. 1st person done well is something readers enjoy, but 1st person done poorly is noticed too.
(3rd person omni--3rd person based on many characters--is considered old fashioned. It's not used very often these days, and can be noticeable to a reader, as opposed to "invisible". Which doesn't mean it's bad. 2nd person is the odd bird out; it's not used widely outside of Choose Your Own Adventure books, but this doesn't mean you shouldn't use it. Use it if you want to.)
It really falls down to what you want to do as an author.
Personally, I used a very limited 3rd person for the majority of my characters. Only 2 of my characters speak in 1st person, and oddly enough they're both minor characters for the stories they are in, so I don't write 1st person very often. This is mostly because I am not confident I could "speak" more than one character in 1st POV and not have them sound the same. 3rd person lets you avoid that problem. The only reason I have the two 1st person characters is because they just popped out that way.
