Actually
it looks like something worthwhile, if still a bit pricey (about the same price as a netbook). Still, it comes with an impressive set of features, and the capability to manage a library in your hand.
Most useful feature? That the books you order are available in the next Kindle you buy to replace the one you just ran over with your car.
Oops. Somehow, pricing in accidents, it doesn't look like a good deal.
If I could get my textbooks for the damfool thing, it might save me a hernia; but that would make altogether too much sense, not for Amazon indeed, but for the slime-dripping lemures of Slubgob’s brood who make procurement decisions for universities.
I do think that the device would be pretty good buy for someone with a need to carry-around a lot of journal articles and source books; particularly since e-ink displays are reputed to be much easier on the eyes and much less power-hungry than LCDs.
I'd still be happier if it came better protected.
My mistake, it does, optionally.
And I was doing such a good job of resisting it....
For the Kindle 1
For the Kindle 2